“George Bailey Experience”

So I have been working on my blog, I’ve been a little bored. I decided to go back to when I began my blog in January and reread some of my past thoughts on the year and spend some time reflecting on them. I ran across one that sparked my interest, being the Christmas season, my brother-in-law has a tradition of watching the black and white version of Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Have you ever thought about what life would be like if you had never been born? Jeremiah did. (Jeremiah 20:14 talks about how Jeremiah wishes he was never born)He was set up to fail in this world…to go through life telling the people of his time about the love of God…and was persecuted for it. Who would have thought back then that we would be reading about his struggles this far into the future? His life has defiantly influenced people’s life. Can you say that about your life? Have you made a difference in someone’s life in the slightest way or better yet who has influenced your own life? Matthew10:41-42 is saying that the smallest act done out of love, God remembers. John 6 is the story of the feeding of the 5,000 men where a small boy had a small amount of food, but when it was blessed it could feed so many. It wasn’t that God couldn’t do any of this within the snap of fingers, but it is obvious to us now that he used that boy so we could see his contribution and remember it. This shows me how we can take something so small and make it grow into something spectacular because God chooses to use us to serve Him. Matthew 26:6 is a story that includes a bottle of perfume and an act of a young woman that was remembered throughout history. In the movie It’s a "Wonderful Life", George Bailey goes through a night in his life if he was not even born and only then did he see that he made a huge difference in the lives of the people around him no matter how insignificant his life truly seemed to him. Please realize that every life has a purpose everyone is important. We have a chance to have this “George Bailey experience” when we enter the kingdom of God, the Day of Judgment. Matthew: 25:31 says this is when we will see how full our cup really is and how Christ’s love leads us. Look at your life today and see what and who influences you, are you showing the love of God in even the smallest ways?
The comment that followed was a quote from and unknown author "Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer."

Do you feel like you missed out on something great, that the people around you are the ones you took for granted, the ones you didn’t take the time to get to know at all? I feel that way right now about so many people. Maybe it is the thought that everyone seems to be moving on with life and I’m in a comfort zone and don’t want things to change but know that they have to. That I have to move out of this town and find new friends, a new church, new places to do fun and exciting things. I don’t want to wake up tomorrow and realize that everything in my life is new and different when I like things the way they are. It is like throwing out your favorite pair of jeans the one with all the holes, that you just got comfortable, when you try on jeans at a store they don’t feel the same, it takes a lot to get them all worked in and cozy again. Questions I ask myself: What are some of the things that are important in my life and how am I utilizing my time for them…where is my focus? If I were to not have been born would that have played a role in others lives? I asked a good friend the other day…well more like told him my theory. I think we all serve a purpose in the lives of people we meet, even if it is just for a second. Our purpose may have been a “wawhoo, I know why I know you” or a done the line five years. “one time the person showed me…” I think that people walk in and out of our lives for a reason even if it is something small like a sales man telling you that pink really isn’t your color…I’m sure there is significance down the line for that…do you get what I’m saying? I think we are all important and connected in a way an to question why you are here and asking to be nonexistence changes everyone else around you and those lives that you have impacted.