In the movie “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, Charlie Brown notices a lot of commercialism and bad behavior.   After struggling with this for a while, during the practice for a school Christmas pageant, he yells out “isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!”

Linus steps up to a microphone at the practice, and begins quoting a passage from the Bible (Luke 2: 8-14), which includes the following text: “and the Angel said unto them, Fear Not, for behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people”.  The tidings (or news) that the angel was bringing was news of the birth of Jesus.

I watched that movie dozens of times in my childhood.  I watched Linus quote that section from the book of Luke dozens of times, too.  But I never noticed one detail about Linus, until a friend pointed it out to me.

When Linus says “Fear Not”, he drops his security blanket.  That is the only time Linus ever dropped his blanket.

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My friend pointed out Linus’ act of dropping his blanket at an important time for me.  I left my job about 2 weeks ago, and decided to start my own consulting/contracting business.  Originally I planned to wait for another 4 or 5 years to do this, but I decided to move more quickly a few weeks ago, and will try to make this a reality right now.

As I type this, I am hoping to sign my first client today.  That would be an important milestone.  I have been telling people “I just need one client-my first one….”

It is time for me to drop the blanket.

Hal