The Blind Side Movie; A Reflection

Do you know Michael Oher? A successful American footballer? Well this movie is inspired by his extraordinary life. Maybe this never crossed your mind, that a successful footballer like him was born from an extremely tough life.

You all got to watch the movie, it's so uplifting and inspiring. Here, some of reflections I gleaned from the movie.

1. There is a SURELY HOPE for you

A man comes from a broken home family. The mother was a drug & alcohol addicted, the father was murdered a couple days after the man born. He did not have any family or relative to rely on. So, he was adopted by several family, until he could go to school. He comes from the minority race- "colored" race with big body, and school surrounded by white people - the majority, so all people call him "Big Mike". But it seemed not enough, he was not smart either, he did not stand out in school, and some teachers underestimated him, and feeling so intimidated as minority. Until when he was feeling unwanted, he choose to escape and stay alone, but he did not have a home to stay even a friend to share with.

Do you think when you are in that condition, you can still think that you have a future hope? Well, maybe some of us will think that we will never have one. And of course for him, to enable surviving to live everyday has been a miracle.

And yep. It is the family background of Michael Oher, a successful American footballer.
 
I think his story is so inspiring. And I can see clearly through all of his weakness & circumstances, God's power is revealed & made perfect in all of his wicked life.

“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
(2 Corinthians 12:9)

Most of us might come from a normal family, a normal financial matter, a normal life compared to Mike Oher, but even so we are rarely grateful for where God has placed us. When life seems messed up, and the world seems to say that we can't, and it's too late for us, but no for God. There is nothing He can't change & He can't replace.

Through Oher's story, God reminded us, that He can do anything, He can CHANGE anything.

Turn Darkness into Light
Turn Failure into Victory
Turn Zero into Hero 
Turn Nothing into Something

20 years ago Michael Oher might be walking to nowhere. I'm sure he did not even think what he could be in the next 20 years, his next career, he just maybe thought about where he could sleep tonight, but who ever knows that God can lift him up by sending him the Tuohy's family.


2. LOVE has the POWER to CHANGE

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
(1 corinthians 13:13)

I'm so amazed and ashamed at once on my self to see Tuohy's family (the white people family) who sincerely decide to adopt Michael Oher to be his beloved son, who at that time Michael Oher was in a very lowest condition. Moreover they know that Mike Oher does not come from the same race like they do. But they sincerely give him food, bed, clothes, and most importantly they give him love that Oher never got since he was a kid.
 
Oher, who used to be mute, turn into an open young man. The love that Tuohy gives can turn a stone into a soft cotton. He can smile, and most importantly he can feel God's love and knowing that he is precious, he is wanted, he is loved through the Tuohy's family.

Well, when I watch the movie, I thought to my self  "well, if I were there, I really wanna help Oher, but maybe I never be like Tuohy family." Then it reminded me again that there are still "Oher Jr" out there. Not all of us maybe can offer a house or share a room with the weak out there, but at least we can be a little light and a glimmer of love for the people who are in their lowest condition.

We never know that our little light could be a lamp for them to pass the darkness bridge in their life, so that through our little work, God is still glorified.

I remember the quote I found in IG that stated :

Jesus does not turn people into Christian,

He turns them into love

Woooww that simple words hit me to the core of my heart. As christians we proudly think that knowing & declaring Jesus as our Lord is enough. 

But in fact Jesus wants us to reach out people out there to knowing Him through love. And as we have been chosen as His children, we should be the extension of His hands that bring His love out to others, especially the ones who have not known Him.

I hope our sensitivity and empathy for the weak can grow and grow each day, so that through the love that we bring in our works even in the smallest works, people still see that Jesus rests in us. Amen

And here is, I present you some photos of Oher and the Tuohy's family, from the internet. You probably will know exactly which one is Oher