My New Life: It's A Wonderful Life

Sunday, December 1, 2013

It's A Wonderful Life


A scene from "It's A Wonderful Life"

It's A Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas movie. In my opinion, it is the best movie ever! If you haven't watched it or it has been a long time since you have watched it I recommend that you check it out this year.

It is about a man who thinks he is worth more dead than alive. When I am feeling low and depressed, I have those same thoughts. In the movie, Jimmie Stewart stars as George Bailey. He decides to kill himself by jumping off a bridge into the water. That's when his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers), appears.

Clarence shows George how many lives he has touched. He shows him how different his hometown of Bedford Falls would be if he had never been born.

Duck Dynasty beards.

Think about how many lives would be different if you were not born. I think about it all the time. The world would have less beauty because my daughter would not be born. My husband probably would look like one of those guys on Duck Dynasty with a long beard. And my cats wouldn't have anyone to feed them...all joking aside, my loved ones' lives would be different for sure.

Think about how many lives you have touched. We all have affected our family, friends, neighbors in some kind of way. Some of it good and some of it bad. But we all impact other people's lives.

God has created each one of us for a reason. Our lives may not be going exactly the way we planned, but we were still created by Him for Him. We all have family and friends that love us and need us in their lives.

Maybe we can't do all the things we used to be able to do. Maybe we don't have the exact job we wanted. Maybe we are in constant pain. Or maybe those are excuses not to do what the Lord wants us to do. What we were made to do. Or maybe we need to change our expectations of what we want our life to be.

My life has made some twists and turns over the last year and a half that I never expected. But I know that God can still use me, just in a different way. I can't teach my Sunday School class anymore, but I can still show love to children at church. I can't be at church for every service, but I can still pray for my church and all of the programs we support.

If we think about all the lives we have changed, then we realize that God is not finished with us just because we are different. If we all think about our family and friends and how we are blessed,we will understand that we all are "The Richest Man In Town."...You will have to watch the movie to understand that last part.