Okay, I am one of those Charlie Brown fans...I mean seriously... I wrote a research paper on Charles
Shulz in high-school. Since last school year I have started my own tradition of reading "A Charlie Brown Christmas" to my students. I feel that the book "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is the perfect book to understand Christmas and see how many people commercialize the holiday..which to me is a special day to celebrate Christ's Birth and remember what Christ did for us. The story starts out with Charlie Brown frustrated that he does not understand Christmas. He asks his friends about Christmas and they could not give him a clear answer what
Christmas was about. Lucy makes him the director of the Christmas play and Sally asks Charlie Brown to write a letter to Santa, and his dog Snoopy is decorating his dog house. Charlie Brown gets even more frustrated with his friends and frustrated that he couldn't understand Christmas...to him at the moment it was just one commercial
hullabaloo. Lucy tells Charlie Brown to go and get a tree...not just any tree but a big
gorgeous tree! Charlie Brown goes to the tree lot and sees this scrawny tree....Charlie Brown brings this tree back to the auditorium and every one laughs at him. Then Linus..(he is one of my favorite) gets up a shares with his friends what Christmas is all about CHRIST'S BIRTH!
All the decorations are fun, shopping is fun, getting presents is fun...trust me I love all that. But, the real reason we have Christmas is because of Christ. It makes me sad to see so many people commercialize Christmas. That there are more pictures of Santa and his reindeer, Christmas trees, ornaments and lights than there are manger scenes and reading from the scripture about the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ. I am SO thankful that Jesus is the reason for the season!
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