Emphasis Preaching Journal

Remember the film, It's a Wonderful Life, about George Bailey, the small-town banker played by Jimmy Stewart? Bailey's on the verge of suicide, when a clumsy angel named Clarence allows him the privilege of seeing what his town would have been like if he had never been born. Truly, in that shadowy dreamscape, the little town of Bedford Falls is a darker and gloomier place. In the vision, it's not even called Bedford Falls; it's Pottersville, named for the grasping miser. Without George Bailey to keep him in line, he's taken over the town.