Mr. Charles Schulz entered this world quietly, sort of like a winter snowflake without being one, without being any bit flaky either. He was present, somewhat talented, unique, but scarcely noticed by people.
His childhood was marked not by applause from the masses but by a strange kind of emptiness inside. He needed Jesus to forgive and fill up that empty void inside. Many sense that emptiness or brokenness. You too can get right with the Father through Christ His Son. This is a good season for that. You and I don't want to miss Christ.. especially at Christmas time.Mr. Disney told him he wasn’t skilled enough to go to work. His school dismissed his art as forgettable. He failed every subject in eighth grade. Even his nickname, “Sparky,” borrowed from a comic-strip horse, seemed more a gentle insult than affection. Paul Harvey once observed, “Sparky wasn’t disliked; the tragedy was that no one cared enough to dislike him.”
Yet the unnoticed are noticed by the Lord. They are often the ones the Lord chooses to use. He sees them most clearly. Heaven’s eyes (the Lord's) rest on those this corrupt world forgets (See Psalm 34:18; 1 Samuel 16:7).
Sparky did not set out to silence his critics. Instead, he drew his life—its loneliness, laughter, disappointments—one panel at a time. He named his character after himself: Charlie Brown. A boy whose kite never rises, whose baseball games end in defeat, whose crush doesn’t see him standing there. But in the landscape of all that quiet sorrow, Schulz did something rare—he allowed God's grace to speak with such profundity.
And when "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was born, he placed Scripture, unashamedly and unedited, in its beating heart. Luke 2—word for word. Linus quoted the whole chapter.
Executives protested. “Too religious,” they warned. Schulz kindly refused. As C.S. Lewis said, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
Are you willing to stand alone for Him (you're never really alone, believer). Are you willing to do it God's way instead of the world's lame way?
On Christmas Eve, more than 15 million households still pause each year to watch Linus walk into that simple circle of light.
A study from George Barna suggests that roughly three out of four Americans recognize that scene—even if many have forgotten the rest of the special. Imagine that: the gospel whispered through the voice of a cartoon child, echoing across seas and decades.
“Fear not,” the text begins (Luke 2:10). God said those words not to lost emperors or scholars, but to believing humble shepherds—men mostly invisible to their own culture. The first announcement of Christ’s birth was given to the overlooked, to the lowly forgotten, to the ones tending to their work among white creatures out in the dark.
A God who chooses shepherds would, of course, choose a meek and quiet cartoonist named Sparky.
Christian songwriter Michael Card once wrote, “In the mystery of the incarnation, God made Himself small enough to be near.”
Schulz seemed to understand that well. The world might overlook the small, but God often wraps His greatest gifts in their simplicity.
As the prophet Isaiah foretold, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light” (Isaiah 9:2). And that light—Christ Himself—shone through the simple art of a man the world once called a failure.
Walt Disney said he wasn’t good enough. But Scripture says, “God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong” (1 Corinthians 1:27).
Schulz’s life became living proof that the Lord delights to lift up the humble (James 4:10). The child who felt invisible became the storyteller for countless lives.. who helped our nation hear some angels again.
The incarnation is the announcement that God steps into our ordinary, unnoticed places to save us, to redeem us, to regenerate us (If repentant and willing), and sanctify us with His power for outreach.
Into our failures Christ steps with a kind hand held out. Into our quiet ache, loneliness, emptiness, guiltiness, fearfulness.. to be experienced firsthand. Into our Charlie Brown moments. And He speaks the everlasting words:
“Unto you is born.. a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11).
So take courage. Come to him as you are. God still writes if His glory (not his Revelation, cuz the Bible-canon is closed. Done) but through unlikely people with the testimony to tell. Are you in him with a story of your own? Go tell. Sure is word as well. And like Linus standing beneath that solitary spotlight, you too can reflect..can hold out the light of life in Christ to a world hungry for hope.
What am I to do?
Practicing the presence of God in prayer wherever you go. Pray without ceasing. It's two-way communication with basic steps of obedience, wisely applying Bible principles. Meditating on the truth of the scriptures, fellowshipping with reborn Christians who love to share their faith helps to edify a Believer.
We hear with the Bible and Spirit living within.. after we're born again.
Practicing the presence of God... what? It begins with quiet, steady communion—speaking to Him, listening for His gentle promptings, and stepping forward in obedience as His Word lights the way. As we meditate on Scripture, truth settles into the heart like seed in good soil, and fellowship with believers who overflow with genuine faith strengthens and steadies us. Iron sharpening iron is no cliché; it’s how God knits His people together so they grow in grace.
Charles M. Schulz lived this reality. Long before his pen brought warmth to the world, his faith was being shaped through deep engagement with God’s Word. He immersed himself in Bible study groups in both Minnesota and California—first attending, then teaching—gathering with reborn Christians whose love for Scripture stirred his own. Schulz handled his Bible the way an artist handles his tools: with devotion. He filled margins with insights, circled key words, mapped timelines, and underlined verses that gripped his soul.
This quiet devotion seeped into his craft. His convictions were not loud but steady, and they compelled him to bring the message of Scripture into his work. When creating "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Schulz insisted—against commercial pressure—that the Nativity story be told plainly and beautifully. And so Linus stepped forward, reciting Luke’s account of Christ’s birth, reminding a generation where true peace is found.
In Schulz, we see a simple pattern: walk with God, soak in His Word, gather with His people, and let faith naturally overflow into life and work. That is practicing His presence—and that is how Christ quietly shapes a soul. God saw what Charles could become and how he could be used.
Pray without ceasing.
Just pray about everything. You don't need the religious gimmicks. What in the world is the so-called (mystical activity of) soaking prayer? Simply pray to the Father in Jesus name.
What does it mean to seek God's face?
What biblically is the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit ain't spooky, religious like a stiff, or weird. He reveals God the Father's manifest presence through comfort, answered prayer, and saved and transformed lives. See Psalm 27:14.
Just pray about everything. You don't need the religious gimmicks. What in the world is the so-called (mystical activity of) soaking prayer? Simply pray to the Father in Jesus name.
What does it mean to seek God's face?
What biblically is the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit ain't spooky, religious like a stiff, or weird. He reveals God the Father's manifest presence through comfort, answered prayer, and saved and transformed lives. See Psalm 27:14.
Does God really exist and care about me?
How can we “rest in the Lord” (Psalm 37:7)?
