Its a Wonderful Life

My wife and I watched "Its a wonderful life" for about the 100th time over the weekend, and every time its seems we find a new gem. The key word is perspective, how we see the world. A great attitude is one thing, and so important. But perspective is really about how we see things, how we see the world, and how we see others. The best part for me is at the very end, when he realizes what a wonderful life he had, and he runs in the house looking for his family, he bumps into the bank examiner and someone from the government, and they say, "we are here about a certain debt," to which he replies, "I know I am going to jail, isn't it great!" The experience he went through changed none of his problems, all of the problems were the same, but he saw the world totally different.

If we could focus on one central truth of our faith, that we are children of God, beloved of the Father. Our whole perspective would change, we would view all parts of our life as part of His loving plan. Joy would flow naturally! It really starts with choosing Faith. Every time we are tempted to think, "I will never overcome this problem," We have to, in our thoughts and actions believe immediately, "God will work this out,", or add your own words of trust, "Today, with Gods help is going to work out great, " "This time its all going to work," Changing our attitude takes time, but slowly if we are faithful, our hearts and our minds can change!