Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.