Blindside

During our Thanksgiving driving I listened to a great story of redemption, adoption and football, The Blind Side. Here is a great quote (as best I could remember) from the book and a clip of the story.

For most of Michael Oher’s life he wandered from home to home and school to school. A friend’s grandmother wanted her grandson to leave his troubled filled inner-city Memphis school and enroll at a Christian schools in Memphis. The grandson went to see this new Christian school with his 6’5” 340lb tag along, Big Mike. It didn’t take the coaches there long to be interested in Mike, or more specifically his girth. Within a year a family from his new school found out that Mike didn’t have a change of clothes and more importantly, a home. That was too much for this wealthy Christian school mom, who decided that he was going to move in with them and became apart of their well-to-do family.
A few months after getting Mike his first ever bed, she brought home a Northface backpack for Mike much to his dismay.
“I am not carrying that backpack.” Mike said.
“Why not?” she replied.
“That’s the backpack all those rich kids carry around.”
“Michael, you are a rich kid.”
That day Michael Oher started carrying the backpack the other rich kids carried.

In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will…in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. Ephesians 1

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