Thanksgiving may be behind us, but if you and your family plan to deep-fry a turkey for Christmas this year, Jase Robertson and his Uncle Si (from Duck Dynasty) have some important tips on how to cook the turkey without burning down the house. Enjoy!
All this week we have been talking about Christmas and reminiscing about different Christmas memories from days gone by. Today I wanted to share about one of my most vivid Christmas memories: A Christmas greeting from space.
It wasn’t little green men in flying saucers who wished a Merry Christmas. It was American astronauts. Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman—the three men onboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft—spent Christmas of 1968 orbiting the moon. On Christmas Eve, as their module made its way around the moon, the three men passed around a sheet of fireproof paper, taking turns reading the words printed on it—the first 10 verses from the Book of Genesis—all on international television.
Commander Borman ended the transmission by saying, “from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.”
A few years ago, if someone had written the words, “Duck the Halls,” you would have assumed it was a typo. Today, however, there’s a Christmas album out by that title from none other than “Louisiana’s most unlikely millionaires,” the Robertson family of the hit TV show Duck Dynasty.
Some people find the show a little strange. Between long beards and camouflage, it definitely isn’t like most of the other stuff on television, but it’s one of the most popular shows on the air. I believe that’s because the show captures the things people cherish: Faith, family, and freedom—or, as Jase Robertson put it, “God, family, and ducks—in that order.”