The Blind Side

I just went to see The Blind Side. I don't say this about many movies, but it is a must see. It is about an upper class white Tennessee family who takes in an underprivileged African American boy. But they do more than take him in. They become his family. They provide for his needs, give him opportunities and love him like he is their flesh and blood.

But the best part is that these were real people. And this just happened...in like 2005. It's good for the soul to hear that people are helping people. We get a snapshot into a truly selfless family. A family who did not have to give what they gave. And their son, Michael, did not become a statistic, like he probably would have been.

Hollywood won with this one. On the heels of movies like Orphan and Saw III which are heinous and utterly disgusting and degrading for the soul, finally, we get a movie that is uplifting. Not a single person in the theater (which was 95% full) got out of their seat throughout the whole 2 hour movie. No one even left until the credits had rolled and the pictures of the true life people had been shown.

But what is truly inspiring is we have the opportunity to be those people. We have the opportunity to change people. It doesn't have to be the take them in, clothe them, buy them a car kind, but we get to laugh, smile at, or simply give something away and change people.

It really does start with one step.

The Blind Side portrays a Christian family who gives of themselves, sacrifices their reputation and doesn't give up when people don't understand.

Shouldn't we be like that?