The Promised Garden
I am about to run a life mapping and personal development course called 'Field of Dreams', named after the Kevin Costner Film of that name....If you build it, they will come. A while ago I came across a poem by Theo Dorgen that really spoke to me and connect beautifully with the whole zeitgeist of Field of Dreams, so I thought I would share it with you now. The Promised Garden by Theo Dorgen There is a garden where our hearts converse, At ease beside clear water, dreaming A whole and perfect future for yourself, Myself, our children and our friends And if we must rise and leave, Put on identity and fight, Each day more desperate than the last And further from our future, that Is no more than love and respect shown To all blocked from the garden that we own. There is a garden at the heart of things, Our oldest memory guards it with her strong will. Those who by love and work attain there Bathe in her living waters, lift up their hearts and Turn again to share the steep privati...