Restless The Podcast

Show Me The Way

What you just heard was a scene from the iconic 1946 film “Its A Wonderful Life where the enterprising George Baily has reached the end of his rope and begins to consider suicide believing that his life is worth more dead than alive. 

In 1977, the Independent reported this revelation from Stewart regarding that scene…as I said it "I felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and my eyes filled with tears. I broke down sobbing. That was not planned at all.”

Every year at Christmas this scene is replayed thousands of times over by those who have reached the end of their ropes. Debt, sorrow, and disappointment, are just a few of the things that bring about feelings of a loss of meaning, purpose and value. 

The problem is often compounded by a mislabeled Christmas that magically promises to solve the issue of peace and good will to men through the purchase of an abundance of gifts. That some how families fractured by disagreement and past hurts will come together as though nothing had happened. That somehow the loss of a loved one will all make sense. 

Yet for lowly shepherds standing in a field one quiet night, were visited by and angel, given Good News, and shown the way to a manger.

To magi 1500 miles to the east who long awaited the arrival of a King because of their knowledge of prophecy, and commitment to go were shown a way to a child. 

To an 84 year old women whose husband died years earlier, spent every day and night of the rest of her life at the temple waiting for a special day to see the one “who would become the way.”

This week and next join with us as we journey with the shepherds, magi and a women by the name of Anna.They were were the least likely characters that a world would expect to be lead to the one who would for all mankind “become the way,”

Are you looking to be shown THE WAY?