I Need to Hear Linus

Life has quieted now.

It’s two days until Christmas and the shopping, wrapping, baking, rushing, fussing….. It’s all done.

It’s pre-dawn. I’m sitting near the tree. The twinkle lights fill the room with a soft light.

My mind travels…. Back, way back in time to a memory. A precious time when Christmas was the center of my year. To the traditions which were built. The laughter, the toys, and I remember just how fun it is to be a kid at Christmas.

One time a year when my favorite television program came back to air.

A Charlie Brown Christmas.

In my memory I see myself sitting with a homemade pop cornball in my sticky hands, I munch and I watch. I grinn and get shivers. Why? Because this was the only show that told the REAL story of Christmas. I knew even then at five year’s old that Linus told the real story.

So won’t you join me and listen in. Relive that time as a gift from Jesus this season. Get the shivers and hear the REAL story again.

Merry Christmas, Be blessed, Lynn

Did you know:
A Charlie Brown Christmas is the first prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. When they first saw the show, CBS executives were horrified at the idea of an animated Christmas special with such a blatant message. They also strongly objected to the fact that the show had no canned laughter.

When viewing the rough cut of the show, both Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson were convinced that they had a flop on their hands. After it premiered, they were happily surprised and shocked at the high ratings and excellent reviews that the show received. Today, the show remains the second longest-running Christmas special on US network television (the 1964 Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) premiered one year earlier and is still broadcast every year on US network television).

Kathy Steinberg, who did the voice of Sally Brown, had not yet learned to read at the time of production, so she had to be fed her lines, often a word or syllable at a time, which explains the rather choppy delivery of the line “All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share”.

Linus’s speech about the true meaning of Christmas is actually Luke 2:8-14 from the King James translation of the Bible. ~IMBD

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