Charlie Brown, Linus, and Lucy are lying on a hillside looking up at the clouds. Lucy says, "If you use your imagination you can see lots of things in the cloud formations. What do you think you see, Linus?"

Linus replies, "Well, those clouds up there look to me like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean . . . .the cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, a famous painter and sculptor . . . And that group of clouds over there gives me the impressions of the stoning of Stephen . . . I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side."

Lucy responds, "Uh, huh, That's very good . . . .What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?" and Charlie responds with his typical note of inadequacy:

"Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsy, but I changed my mind."

I'm glad that Charlie Brown has his own Christmas special, aren't you. The Charlie Brown in all of us needs to know that we are loved. "The light shines in the darkness…"