My oldest daughter sent me a link to a song this week about being rich in family. It reminded me of a moving line in the movie, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. This movie from 1946 should be required watching during this holiday season.

Basically, the team of the movie is about the most loved man in town (a banker named George Bailey) who lost his way and thought he was a failure and had nothing to live for, only to be reminded by an angel, that he is in fact, very blessed. His business partner and uncle Harry, lost some of the bank’s money that would cause the bank to go under. George was despondent and ready to take his own life only to meet his angel who changed his mind. Watch the movie this holiday season, and it will help you recognize how blessed you really are. In one of the last lines of the movie, his uncle toasts him and says, “To George Bailey, the richest man in town.”

Between the song my daughter sent me and this old Jimmy Stewart movie, it reminded me of how really rich I am. I am rich because of my beautiful wife of 47 years, my two beautiful daughters, two fine son in-laws and my four precious grandbabies. God has had his hand on my family for many years and there is not a more grateful (and rich in blessings) husband, father, father in-law and grandfather in the world than me.

I am truly rich. KT