![]() Kinsella’s 1982 novel, “Shoeless Joe.” The film version has Kevin Costner as Iowa-based farmer Ray Kinsella, who is encouraged by a lingering voice to transform part of his family farm’s cornfield into a baseball field. Remember, "if you build it, he will show.According to IMDB, this Universal Pictures movie, starring Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, and James Earl Jones, is based on W.P. ![]() Go watch Field of Dreams, and go and be inspired to do the impossible. Once you show up or build it as we see in the movie, people will come, opportunities will come knocking. While many will not be on board with our crazy rich ideas, that is okay, the only persons who need to believe in that idea, dream, inspiration is you. Whether we want to resign from our dead-end jobs to pursue our passion in a new venture, or getting a second chance to be inspired to break out the art supplies to paint again or that typewriter that is covered in the storage unit to type our words into bestseller novels we all have that passion, that crazy voice in our heads motivating us, pushing us. While we look at Field of Dreams as a feel-good movie, we also can learn from it. He had wowed one person to his way of thinking. They did not understand him at first but eventually, one person got to see what he had already seen. Calling him crazy for destroying prime crops (corn) and building a big diamond in the middle of his farm, everyone thought he was crazy. While his wife and daughter believed in him, others did not. Is there something that we want to be inspired to do? What is it that you want to be when you grow up? Do you have the guts and the faith to follow through with your plans even though you have been called crazy? If the answer is yes, then you will find a brotherhood spirit in Ray. ![]() Archibald "Moonlight" Graham got the chance to hit a home run. Terrence Mann got inspired to write again, and John Kinsella, Ray's father, got the chance to play catch with his son, not to mention that Dr. For not stepping out in faith and grab your dream with both hands.įield of Dreams spoke volumes in acts of Faith along with second chances. Have you heard a voice saying "create your own business?" Did you feel the nudge in your gut to tell you to apply for that job that you want?" If you have heard the voices telling you those things, you are not crazy, but you are indeed crazy for not acting on them. Instead, in order to fit in, we shelf those ideas, we hang up our cleats (shoes) and trade it in for jobs we don't like or that we are barely tolerating. We have a dream or a calling in us, yet still, we allow persons who are not on the same page as we, dictate our actions, calling us crazy, or stupid because of a crazy idea that we have. We all need a second chance in our lives to right wrongs, or to pursue the career we placed on the back burner in favor of paying jobs. Ray kept on getting instructions throughout the movie and each of the instructions leads him back where it all started, at his farm. Now as the movie progressed, he met a man Terrance Mann, an author who have stopped writing books, and began to do the opposite of what he wants to do, writing computer codes for children while becoming a recluse. He builds a baseball field in the middle of his crop, utilizing all his savings and leaving him broke and penniless. One day out of the blue, he heard this voice out of nowhere, "if you build it, he will come." Now Ray thought he was going out of his mind and asked his wife if she was speaking to him. Ray Kinsella bought a farm and lived there with Annie his wife and Karin his daughter. Though this movie was deeply entrenched in the game of Baseball, we see little nuggets of wisdom coming through. The movie though old as it was made back in the 80s spoke about second chances, acts of faith when things seemed hopeless and following the directions that are given. I have just watched Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, the son of a minor league baseball player who did not make it to the majors.
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