The Blind Side

If you haven't already seen this movie, I am sure you have at least heard about it. And when I tell you that it was incredible and very moving, I'm sure you would tell me that that's what everybody's saying about it.

Well that's because it's true!!


I won't spoil the story, but I will tell you that your heart will be changed when you watch it and that you need to bring your tissues with you to the theater. You will use them.


For those who have seen it already, I will tell you what really touched me out of the whole thing. Several years ago I read a book in a book club called Finding Anna. I've probably blogged about it before, but it's about the story of the man who wrote the hymn It Is Well With My Soul, Horatio Gates Spafford.


(It's an excellent book that I highly recommend.)


Anyway, after I read the book, I googled him and his story and found photographs of many of the things they talked about in the book. Photos of him and his family, an important telegraph, the lyrics he actually wrote for the hymn. Though I knew the story was true, seeing those things made it very real for me and the significance of it all really hit me.


That's what happened when I watched The Blind Side last night. Though I knew it was a true story, seeing the real Michel Oher and all the photographs of him and his family during the credits made me weep. This really happened to this boy, and this family really did change his life. Any I wonder how many other millions of kids out there are just waiting to be saved the same way?


I will buy this movie when it comes out on video, and I wouldn't mind going to watch it in the theater again. It's THAT good.