For over a dozen years while we lived in Northwest Indiana, we would host a Christmas Eve party with over three dozen extended family members and friends. We all enjoyed great food, fun games, Christmas-themed Charades, and our White Elephant Gift Exchange.
But the evening was never complete until we all read Luke 2:8-14 together. And then we would always watch a brief clip of A Charlie Brown Christmas. It’s the classic scene where Charlie Brown asks:
“Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?”
Linus responds with the best-ever answer to that question as he recites Luke 2:8-14.
Did You Notice?
In watching and re-watching that scene for decades, I missed an incredibly poignant moment. Then I read Jason Soroski’s post, Just Drop the Blanket. Jason notes that right in the middle of reciting Luke 2:8-14, Linus drops his blanket. Always clinging to his security blanket, until he reads the words from Luke 2, “Fear not.”
As Soroski explains, it’s crystal clear what Charles Schulze was saying. The birth of Jesus separates us from our fears. The birth of Jesus frees us from our security blankets. The birth of Jesus empowers us to drop all our false trust we’ve been clinging to, and
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