Monday, April 8, 2013

PEANUTS -- "A Duckie and A Horsey"

I love the newspaper cartoon strip called "PEANUTS". It was created by Charles Schultz who passed away a few years ago. My favorite edition is this one posted below:

 [first lines]
Lucy Van Pelt: Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton. I could just lie here all day and watch them drift by. If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud's formations. What do you think you see, Linus?
Linus Van Pelt: Well, those clouds up there look to me look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean.
[points up]
Linus Van Pelt: That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor. And that group of clouds over there...
[points]
Linus Van Pelt: ...gives me the impression of the Stoning of Stephen. I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side.
Lucy Van Pelt: Uh huh. That's very good. What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: Well... I was going to say I saw a duckie and a horsey, but I changed my mind.

Lord, give us the ability that Charlie Brown possesses -- the ability not to miss what's obvious, as simplistic as it may be. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Grateful

2 comments:

Martin LaBar said...

Peanuts had some solid theology.

i am Grateful... Kerry i am. said...

My favorite theologians by far are the PEANUTS characters.