Have you seen the movie The Blind Side yet? It’s been out a while and just made it to the cheap seats, which is what I’ve been waiting for.
The clips and trailers made it look like a superb movie and I couldn’t wait for it to get to the $3 theater. It turned out to be a good movie, but as with every movie that I’ve expected a lot from, it underdelivered against my expectations.
However, it is still a very good story. A small act of kindness by a child leads to an act of kindness by his mom. This leads to a more extensive outreach into a person’s life and before you know it, he’s part of the family, his life forever changed. A true story, too.
Stories like this just show how we don’t know how our reaching out to help another person in need will change their lives – and ours.
If you buy a cart of groceries for a needy neighbor, it might not end up with such far reaching consequences as this family had in the movie, but I guarantee you’ll make your neighbor’s day. But you never know what moment will touch someone’s life so much that it changes the course of their destiny.