Kara and I went and saw my favorite 2009 movie, “The Blind Side,” on Tuesday.

Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) takes on a homeless Michael Oher (current Baltimore Raven OT), a far-from college football-bound high school student at the time, and gives him a place to stay, an identity to engage and life bigger than he had hoped.

A woman stirred by compassion and need allowed her life to be interrupted to impact this young man, lacking much.  That move then jarred her husband, son, daughter, friends, and anything and everything in her life, for a greater good.

God has been reminded me often this week, about what one life can do through a life-changing decision that can lead to a lifestyle of giving, sacrifice and meaning.

It’s what we try to be here locally with the Gathering, adding value any time, every time.

An artist, Israel Houghton, I recently discovered could sing the theme of that movie in his release, “The Power of One.”

“What if my only responsibility was to change the world.
To change the world? Let me be the ONE.
To start a revolution.  … It all begins with … ONE”

The message continues to ring out, as I read and blog (coming soon) about Mark Batterson’s new book, Primal.

I took my two oldest to Huntington, IN Thursday night to see our favorite artist, Toby Mac, sing his latest hit, “City On Our Knees,” with lyrics singing …

“If you gotta start somewhere why not here
If you gotta start sometime why not now
If we gotta start somewhere I say here
If we gotta start sometime I say now”

More than I want Jaden and Ethan to sing and love that song, I want them to live that song.

Tuohy gave Oher something he had never had before – a bed.  She also gave him something more important – herself.

What will you give today?  And to whom?