In my favorite Christmas movie: Frank Capra’s classic 1946 Christmas story, It’s a Wonderful Life, the angel Clarence intercedes to stop George Bailey, a hopelessly discouraged man, from throwing his life away. He gave George a vision of what life would have been like if he had never been born. Thanks to the angel, George realizes that he is a unique and irreplaceable human being. Like all of us, no matter what our personal circumstances, every life touches others in…