Collateral Beauty - I get it

Did you see the movie Collateral Beauty ? I did last year and it didn’t make much sense to me until this year . It hit me like a pound of bricks as I was driving one day through Hemet as a short cut to get to a prayer meeting I go to every week , I saw him a man my age quite attractive talking to himself on the side of the rode . He was clearly homeless and on drugs . I thought to myself how sad he is someone’s son , maybe a dad or a husband . Here he is lost . I began to cry .

Collateral Beautyis the ripples we are left with after a great tragedy .We see the very fabric of life instead of drive by it . We feel it . I myself went through some astounding tragedies a big one just the past few months - past year . I realize I slotted every bad thing away like a notecard and now each one pops up I’m left to read them every day .

I know what addiction does to families . I know what pain is and abandonment , I know what it means to invest everything you are and to be taken to hell instead of the dreams you built together .

In the great tragedy we feel every breath we breathe because the pain is so great , there is a bond to eveything around us to heal and to love so we may find healing and love . It’s the worst place to be in this kind of pain is unlike anything you would even wish on an enemy but you view the world differently and you see the beauty in the ashes . To me this is a gift . It takes a special person to love the broken . To see things with out judgement to see beyond the eyes of a lost crowd . You see it with the humility of your own pain .

Maybe I’ll learn to guard my heart better . Not let someone take it and burn it to the ground with absolutely no regard . Maybe I’ll learn to demand respect and take nothing less . Learn to not let someone abuse me like a throw away doll after I gave my world . I’m sure there is a better way .

But there is collateral beauty . We just have to look for it . Reach out to the hurting and to the broken
If your uninspired then inspire someone . If your sad , serve people .

I don’t know what all I needed to say except the love you give to others is the love you keep . Not the other way around .

Becareful who you give your heart too .