Field of Dreams

[At the end of the movie Ray (Kevin Costner) recognizes the meaning behind all the messages he received through the film.]

This is such a beautiful movie, but I always find it touching that the whole point of the movie is about reconciliation.  The first words Ray hears in the movie "If you build it, he will come"  motivate Ray to start this journey.  His journey of following signs from above about something good for his life.  He decides to ultimately do although it seems to make no sense in opposition to his father, telling his wife that his dad never did anything worry of note.  A lot of people think Ray is crazy since he is losing a lot of his crop by building a baseball field.  So all the while while Ray is building the field he is sharing with his wife and daughter about his father's hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta).  

At the culmination of the film we recognize what "if you build he will come" means.  It was his father.  Ray in this epiphany is wrong though because as Ray is realizing it was about his father.  It is not about his father, but rather his relationship with his father.  If you notice the father is already experiencing "heaven."  The reason that his father came was so that Ray could be reconciled with his father.  It is Ray that these phrases was about.  

Now that we have the synopsis this is how God treats us.  If we build a place for Him to dwell He will come.  If we go the distance, we will ease our pain.  It is about God constantly calling us back to Himself.  He loves us and wants to be reconciled with humanity, with you.  God is already experiencing the joy of heaven, but He wants you to be at peace. He loves you and desires your heart to take away the pain over how we have rejected Him.  Ray thought it was too late to be reconciled with his father, but it wasn't because the father loved him so much he went to extraordinary means to love him.  This is the same as us, it is not too late, God is waiting to embrace us once again as a son.