The Best Television Show Ever

One of the most wonderful matters of all time is the show that is being broadcast right now on channel 7. (I'm blogging about it now because I saw it when it was shown last week.)

It is "A Charlie Brown Christmas." No, it is not merely the best Christmas show ever, but the best television thing ever to beam across that medium. Why is it the wonderful matter that it is?

It is thoroughly and enchantingly imbued with all that does matter: relationship, discovery, accomplishment in all of its bountiful glory.

In and around a Vince Guaraldi soundtrack that is phenomenally brilliant (something few would deny), children interact with one another to find what the season is really about. Linus actually takes precious secular airtime to speak some of the most beautiful words ever spoken. They are from the book of Luke, chapter 2, verses 8 to 14. All they do is make plain pronouncement of the One thing that rescues man from his utter abject desperation.

Charlie Brown represents that part of us that desires what is real, and in his quest he encounters so much turgid opposition that it seems hopeless. But he perseveres (the accomplishment), he does so with the eventual support of his friends (the relationship), and he finds what it is all about after all (the discovery). It all concludes with all of them singing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," and every time I see that part I weep buckets.

Why on earth would I do that? It's a cartoon for goodness sake! It's not even one of my favorite Christmas hymns! And they're all standing there next to a dog house in the snow, all part of mediocre comic strip drawing (as Charles Schulz himself confessed)!

I do it because all of who Jesus Christ is and what He's done is made profoundly meaningful. That one moment as they sing and shout "Merry Christmas Charlie Brown" is like touching paradise.

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Comments

  1. Fictions6:42 PM

    It is also one of the most profitable!

    Regards,

    Alexander

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  2. Fictions11:02 PM

    Greetings Mr. Beck,

    Here is the url to my "conventional" blog:

    http://www.livejournal.com/users/national_health/

    I appreciate your comment!

    Regards,

    Alexander

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