13. It's a Wonderful Life!

Hey, did anybody go to Flicks on the Bricks last night? They showed "It's a wonderful Life" in Clinton downtown open air (it was freezing!!!) and it was the first time for me to watch this movie. And I was really overwhelmed by it and I decided that it should become now one of my favorite movies :-)

I was really excited by the idea used by the storywriter to confront George Bailey with the circumstances in his city if he had never been born. It showed the effects George's life had on other people's lives and it made him understand better why life is wonderful indeed and that you shouldn't just throw it away.
I do agree with it that your life influences the lives of others, to the better or to the worse. Unfortunately we scarcely remember this fact and that's why we live our lives "they way I want it," selfishly and egotistically.

This movie also reminded me of a friend at home who died in March after he had received a bone marrow transplantation due to leukemia. This man was only in his fortys and only some days ago, memories about him flashed my mind. What he had done, what he had said, things we had experienced together, the way he had laughed. This overwhelmed me and tears filled my eyes. He was a man who was pretty simple in his life and in his thoughts, but he was a person who was a straight Christ follower. Even when he spent his last three months after the transplantation in the hospital, deceising, he still was a witness to Christ. He followed him both in death and in life. He's a person I want to use as a role model on my way following Jesus.