The True Meaning of the Holiday Season

That very pretty girls' Mum likes to harken back to her childhood during the holiday season. It's amazing how things have changed in our country over the past 40 to 50 years. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. One holiday show that I looked forward to was A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Peeper's Mum has admired and appreciated the Peanuts Gang for a long time and has a collection of stuffed Snoopy and his little birdie pal, Woodstock dolls around the house. One thing that stands out from the TV Special was Charlie Brown lamenting and looking for the true meaning of Christmas and the holiday season. Charlie was a bit disgruntled when his precious Beagle decided to decorate his doghouse with lights and other decorations. Charlie further lamented that "he wasn't going to let his dog's commercialism ruin his holiday". LOL! Only then did his friend, Linus, on the stage of the school auditorium explain the true meaning of Christmas to his friend (Charlie Brown).

I recall years ago when I was in elementary school we used to put on Christmas shows/plays about the coming of the Christ child, etc. Now, any mention of the first Christmas (Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus) has been banished from any public school. It's not even politically corrrect to mention Santa Claus in many of the area school districts. Realizing that we are a diverse culture with different religious backgrounds, practices and creeds, personally I find nothing offensive of having a public school put on a Christmas play as depicted in A Charlie Brown Christmas. I'm surprised that the major TV networks that carry this wonderful holiday special every year hasn't been threatened with legal action because of the reference of the wonderful event that took place thousands of years ago in a little town called Bethlehem, a place where pilgrims gather every year to find the true meaning and spirit of the holiday season.

Well, that very pretty girl thinks that we should put away political correctness and let the message of Peace on Earth ring forth. Linus and Charlie were spot on about the true meaning of the holiday season. I tip my hat to them.

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