In 1965, Charles Schulz, a devout Christian and creator of the Peanuts comic strip, was asked to create a Christmas special for CBS featuring the Peanuts Characters. He agreed with one requirement, that they allow him to include the story of the birth of Jesus. Although the stations executives were hesitant and tried to convince him otherwise, Schulz was insistent. As a result, for the past 50 plus years, millions of people have watched and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and heard the story of Jesus and "what Christmas is all about."
It wasn't until a few ears back that I realized a "hidden message" in the film. Linus, a child who seems to have some insecurities as he carries a security blanket with him at all times. In fact, Linus NEVER drops his blanket, except once While sharing the message of "what Christmas is all about " Linus drops his blanket at the exact moment he says the words, "fear not!"
In this seemingly innocent moment, Linus delivers a powerful reminder of the true meaning of Christmas. We are to "fear not", for Jesus is born. We needn't rely on material things for security, we have God with us, "Immanuel" (Matthew 1:23) Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior - the true meaning of Christmas.
Awhile back, someone informed me, indignantly so, that Linus picks up his blanket at the end of the speech so my interpretation must be wrong. Well, he was right, Linus does pick up his blanket at the end of his speech. However, he "drops" it again later...
Amid big, bright, colorful, shiny artificial trees, Charlie Brown chose the least of these, a little, wooden tree with just a few branches. Shortly thereafter, Linus uses his blanket to wrap about the base of the tree and says, "Mavbe it iust needs a little love" In that moment. the tree "awakens" stands tall and firm. A reminder that no matter who we are, how many mistakes we've made, "a little love" can make all the difference . Let's strive to "fear not" (Luke 2:10) and "love one another" (John 13:34), not just at Christmastime, but the whole year through.
Borrowed from Charlene M. Speer & 'Christian Life Minister' on Facebook...
Not sure when apple bought the rights to the peanuts collection, but it hasn’t been available on network television for at least a couple of years. I’m sure there is some profit to be made from streaming, but it really feels that the goal is to keep the story of Jesus off of your TV.
Good dig. The beast # ad was from 1976, eight years before the Big Brother Super Bowl ad.
Can you imagine how much one of those is worth today? (that $666.66 price seems a little too coincidental though, doesn't it? Wouldn't it have made more sense to have it priced at $669.95 or some other "regular" price?)
It looks more like Isaac Newton sitting under his proverbial gravity apple. But I dunno, kinda fuzzy to tell.
66.6 is in all kinds of things. The average temperature for the human body is 66.6 degrees above freezing on the fahrenheit scale.