Just a Thought....

I just finished watching the movie The Blind Side. I don't know if any of you have seen this movie yet, but if you haven't, you need to watch it. When I watch movies that touch me, it makes me start to think about things, things I normally don't give as much attention to as I should. I won't give away the movie, but I will say this, Family is a very important thing, and I think that most people take the fact of having a family for granite. I mean, most people, and I am guilty of this myself, don't take the time to think how lucky we are to have a family we can call our own. Family doesn't have to be what most of us believe the definition is, a mother, a father, sisters, brothers, grandparents, etc. Family is simply a place where YOU feel you belong. I have taken for granite that I have a mother, a father, siblings, and an extended family. I have never stopped, not for long at least, to think, I could be that person out there who doesn't have those people in their lives, or if they do, their father, mother, etc, may not be there for them in the capacity as mine have.

It makes me realize that there are children out there who don't have parents, and if they do they have no idea who they are. Can you even imagine how heartbreaking that could possibly be?? Or people who have lost their family in horrible accidents, etc. You see, what I am getting at, is family doesn't just have to be the people who you are born too...Families consist of many different situations, grandmother's who raise their grandchildren, aunts and uncles who stand in the parental role, and in many cases adoptive parents. Families can and often are, a group of people who love and care for one another. Friends fall into that category, friends, true friends, are family in all the sense of the word. In closing, just remember this, the next time you meet someone, you befriend someone, treat that person like you would your family, the ones you love, you never know, that person may not have a family and the love and compassion you show them may be life changing, it may give them hope that not all is lost, that there are people out there who care about them, when they have all but given up that no one does. Like my granny used to say, " To man this is possible, but to GOD ALL things are possible."