I Don't Care What Happens to Me.... I Wanna Live Again

Luke 1:39-55

George Bailey finally gets a chance to see, through the magic of the second-class angel Clarence, what his life would have been like if he had never lived.  And he realizes that his Place on Earth is special, beautiful, wonderful.  The money is still missing, jail time may still be ahead of him, but he doesn't want to lose another second of the life God gave him.  So he stands on that same bridge where he almost took his own life and he says, "I don't care what happens to me.... I wanna live again."

Mary has been entrusted to carrying to term the Savior, the Christ Child.  She could have run from this. She could have said, "Thanks, but no thanks." She had a choice. But she says, "My soul magnifies the Lord." She says, "My spirit rejoices..." She says, "(God) has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant." She understands that from now on, because of the choices she has made to face the road ahead, generations will call her blessed.

Knowing that something is happening in life that will forever affect your future is ominous and exciting. It is perilous and spectacular. The unknowns can paralyze you or they can make you soar.
Mary had no real knowledge of how things would turn out for her once she began the journey of becoming the mother of Jesus.  She just knew that she couldn't care what would happen, she needed to live into that reality, that promise from God that she would be blessed... regardless.

George faces an uncertain future and yet he is able to run through the streets with joy saying, "Merry Christmas" to all the parts of Bedford Falls that were, before his realization, more of a burden than a joy.

How do we move into an unknown future, an advent of expectation, with a calm reassurance that God will "look with favor" on our lives, no matter what lies ahead?  How do we begin to really LIVE again, despite not knowing what will happen to us tomorrow?

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