Comments on: What thoughts did you have on the movie Blindside?

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:48:20 +0000

Welcome, Shivani!
So glad to have you on the blog! I can see God gave you a merciful heart and has His hand on you.

The truth is — we are all sinful — all have selfishness and a bent toward our own way. But Christ paid for our sin and if you have trusted Him, you are forgiven.
He continues to rescue us from our selfishness and make us like Him. Sounds like you are on that path — and I so hope you keep blogging with us — perhaps doing the Bible study we are doing together on The God of All Comfort. Jump in!

By: Shivani

Shivani — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:07:55 +0000

It made me realize that god has a purpose for every one in life. The movie has brought new meaning to my life n it’s purpose. I want to help the needy. I remember when I wad a lil kid I would see poor needy people on the streets n people begging I would always pray god help them. I would ask my mom for money and give it to them. It would always make me cry too. I am 22 years of age and in march I will be 23. I pray to God to give me the strenghth courage n everything tat I have in me to help others n those in need. I ask this question that lee Ann ask in the movie am I a bad person?

It was one of the best movie I have seen.

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:00:57 +0000

I just saw Blindside today, and loved it. It’s focus is on relationships and giving your heart to someone in mercy, grace, and trust just because they need it. Michael made a greater change in the family than they made in him, because he listened to his heart all the time, and did the right thing. He valued protecting others above all, and his size and his heart allowed him to realize this in action…a great lesson to us all. I loved the scene where Michael’s birth mother meets with his adoptive mother, and how his adoptive mother feels for his mother, and reaches out to her with love, telling her “He will always be your son.” No judgement, just love. We can certainly see Jesus’ love working in the hearts of each member of the family, and in Michael.

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:20:19 +0000

I always love your contributions Fellowsojourner. So glad when I see your name.

By: Fellowsojourner

Fellowsojourner — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:25:24 +0000

Hi Dee! You asked the question – have any of us struggled with wanting God’s stuff to make sure others think we are good Christians? I know, for me, when I am focused mainly on myself, it is then, I seek more of the approval of men. When I am thinking of others and their needs, and that is where my focus is, then the approval of others is far less significant. I liked what the one writer said, and I agree wholeheartedly – that there are many opportunities in our everyday, ordinary lives, to reach out and touch people. When I have been focused on myself, I have missed many opportunities and it is not because the “love of God has not been poured out into my heart,” and my focus rather than being on the “still, small voice of God” has been on the rather loud voice of myself.

I think of what great compassion Jesus had. After a long day of teaching the multitudes, touching them and healing them – the disciples told Jesus to send the multitudes away, so they could get something to eat. Heck, they were proably tired, it had been a long day! But instead of turning them away, Jesus turns to his disciples and says to them – “you feed them.” I don’t think Jesus did this to “pass the buck”, but I think he did it, so the disciples would “enter in”, to find nourishment for their own souls. Jesus said in John 4:34, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” I think when we are doing what God wants us to do, listening to that still small voice, we find refreshment for our own souls. The world and our flesh says “me first” – but Jesus knows it is more blessed to give than to receive. The giver of life also knows how to show us the meaning of life.

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:39:25 +0000

That’s a great quote “impressed to stop.” Liked your reflections on it.

May each of us be open to hear from Him this Advent — and not miss His plan!

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:38:24 +0000

So good.

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:37:52 +0000

That’s interesting, Sally! How did your interaction with her reveal that?

By: Sally Frahm

Sally Frahm — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:41:43 +0000

We ran into Sandra Bullock in the airport, and she is real and genuine, no put on airs…praying she will meet more “real” Christians. Lord, turn her heart to You and give her a beautiful grace, that she too will be the “real” thing, bringing others to Jesus. Amen!

By: Susan Nolley

Susan Nolley — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Dee,
I LOVED the movie!!
Leigh Ann Touhy said in an interview when commended for what she had done, “It’s not about me, it’s about Michael! I don’t think I could have sat at that dining room table for hours every night, studying, and do what he did to make it happen.”
I also read in an interview that on the night she saw Michael walking in the cold, in shorts, that she “felt impressed” to stop.
My husband and I asked each other after the movie, “What if she had not listened to that ‘still small voice’? What if she had ignored it and had not stopped?”
I have been on a ‘journey’ over the last couple years in learning about this very thing. I have found that it is in the ordinary, everyday routines of life that God delights to work through and for His children. I noticed in my studies that Jesus did most of His miracles on His way somewhere. He was never too busy to be interrupted!
I have begun to try to live each day by what I call the “Whatever Principle”–Whatever He wants me to do, Whenever He wants me to, Wherever He wants me to, However He wants me to, to Whomever He wants.
I believe if we cultivate our ear to hear and allow Him to “interrupt” our day, God is ready to use us to reach out someone in our ‘world’ every day. Whether it’s with a smile, a kind word, a pat on the back, or stopping to inquire of a young man walking in the cold in shorts, He wants use us to be His hands extended!