I finally watched 'It's a Wonderful Life' and my mom was right about one important thing

Believe it oregon not, but I conscionable watched "It’s a Wonderful Life" all the mode done for the archetypal time. 

If you’re looking for a Christmas movie that reminds you what the vacation is really about, this is the one. 

About 30 minutes in, my ma said, "This isn’t truly a Christmas movie."  

At that constituent successful the film, I agreed. There were nary elves, lights oregon Christmas trees.

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The movie "It's a Wonderful Life," was produced and directed by Frank Capra. Seen here, James Stewart arsenic George Bailey considering suicide. Premiered December 20, 1946; theatrical wide merchandise January 7, 1947. Screen capture. Paramount Pictures. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

Don’t get maine incorrect — I, the feline who wears a antithetic wacky Christmas garment each time successful December — emotion that worldly and ever will! But this movie has deeper meaning, and if my ma hadn’t fallen dormant soon thereafter, I’m definite she would person agreed. 

The communicative of George Bailey is astir gratitude for God’s blessings and learning to spot him, particularly erstwhile beingness doesn’t spell the mode that you deliberation it should.  

Humanity’s faltering spot successful God during the galore trials of the Old Testament revealed the request for what God had agelong promised: Jesus coming from eden to the manger we spot successful our Christmas displays — to dice for our sins, reconstruct our narration with God and renew our spot successful his greater plan.

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The movie captures conscionable however almighty that benignant of spot tin be. 

George was intelligent and ambitious, dreaming of traveling the world, gathering large things and escaping his tiny town. That beingness ne'er came. Instead, work kept him home: helium took implicit his family’s humble assemblage slope aft his father’s death, enactment others’ needs up of his ain and watched friends unrecorded retired his dreams.  

Yet George and his happy-go-lucky wife, Mary, embraced the beingness they were given. They laughed a lot, raised their children to pray, treated everyone with emotion and respect and had immense gratitude for the location and household God had provided.

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But the existent trial came erstwhile missing $8,000 astatine the slope gave George unwanted attraction from a slope examiner, a writer and adjacent the police. In despair, helium adjacent contemplated ending his life. That’s erstwhile helium turned to God.   

"Dear Father successful heaven, I’m not a praying man, but if you’re up determination and you tin perceive me, amusement maine the way," helium said. "I’m astatine the extremity of my rope." 

American actors James Stewart (1908-1997), arsenic George Bailey, and Karolyn Grimes arsenic his girl Zuzu, successful a country from 'It's a Wonderful Life,' directed by Frank Capra, 1946. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

What followed is the halfway acquisition of the movie.

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God didn’t simply manus George a solution. Instead, He showed him a satellite successful which George had ne'er been born: a darker, colder spot wherever the radical he’d softly helped were mislaid and broken; his woman was alone, and his children ne'er existed. 

George realized that his beingness had mattered much than helium realized and that, careless of whether oregon not helium could hole his fiscal troubles, helium already possessed everything helium genuinely needed.  

When helium returned to reality, helium embraced his household and location with overflowing gratitude, entrusting the result of this tiny idiosyncratic conflict to God.

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Yet George and his happy-go-lucky wife, Mary, embraced the beingness they were given. They laughed a lot, raised their children to pray, treated everyone with emotion and respect and had immense gratitude for the location and household God had provided.

Then — and lone past — did the last acquisition arrive: the assemblage helium had served poured retired its emotion and enactment to prevention the bank. 

"Ask and it volition beryllium fixed to you" doesn’t mean we get everything we deliberation we need. It means God listens and yet provides what is genuinely required to fulfill his plans for america — often, lone aft we larn to spot Him first.

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Hardship inactive comes — layoffs, illness, nonaccomplishment — but it tin beryllium portion of God’s larger mission, overmuch of which is beyond quality understanding. Like Job successful the Old Testament, who endured unimaginable suffering without mentation yet was yet restored aft much afloat entrusting himself to God, George had his ain infinitesimal of surrender. Only past did helium admit however richly blessed helium already was. Only past did helium admit however richly blessed helium already was. 

It's a Wonderful Life" was produced and directed by Frank Capra. Seen here, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carl Switzer. (Everett)

So possibly my ma was right. "It’s a Wonderful Life" isn’t a Christmas movie successful the modern, sentimental sense. It’s thing bigger.

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If you’re not already readying connected it, I highly urge you ticker it again this year. 

I cognize I’ll beryllium watching each December.