It's a movie with Bill Murray that came out in 1988.
I had never seen it until I married Monte.
It's a modern (1980s) adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with the three ghosts and everything.
The Tiny Tim character won't speak
after witnessing his father's murder years before.
Bill Murray is Frank Cross, the Scrooge character who is a successful TV exec bent on ratings and success rather than good quality programming.
The transformation of Frank Cross is pretty phenomenal.
He goes on live TV to explain to everyone listening exactly what he's learned.
The speech gets me every time, every year.
Here it is:
If you believe in this pure thing,
the miracle will happen and you will want it again tomorrow!
You'll get greedy for it.
I love how the writers used the word greedy for something good.
It makes me think of what I can be greedy for.
God's word
Prayer
Encouragement
Hospitality
Not what I can do for others in my own power but what God can do for others through me.
Now that's a reason I wouldn't mind being called greedy.
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