God … God … dear Father in heaven, I’m not a praying man, but if you’re up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I’m at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God … –

It’s a Wonderful Life is about frustration, sacrifice, compromise, oppression, temptation, and loss – a lifetime of it. We have dreams unrealized. We are stressed by daily life.

We do not fully appreciate what we have, or by what we have managed to accomplish despite our obstacles. We are too often focused on the wrong things.

It is wise once in a while to tune in to your heart and listen. Sometimes the simplest things effect unexpected transformation.

Love for Friends and family, the decency we exchange with those around us, the value of not doing great things but small things in a great way. Those are life’s moments inscribed in our heart.

It’s a Wonderful Life premiered at the Globe Theatre in New York on December 20, 1946 starring George Bailey.

A man who has given up his dreams in order to help others and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody.

Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community would be had he never been born.

Each man’s life touches so many other lives. Life is full of wonder by the mere fact of our interconnectedness. We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

Clarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence. Get me back. Get me back. I don’t care what happens to me.

Only get me back to my wife and kids. Help me, Clarence, please. Please!

I want to live again. I want to live again. I want to live again … Please, God, let me live again.