I am writing this from the

historic and very scenic Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C. overlooking

the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

This is the fourth year for

what has become a Herndon family Thanksgiving tradition. This year, especially,

we are overcome with the steadfastness and eternal assurances of God's

power and presence.

Last year was my mother's last

year to be able to come to the Blue Ridge Mountains area. As a young girl

she spent several years leading the music at the student conferences at

the Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center near Asheville. She had also

had the joy to announce her engagement to my father at Ridgecrest.

To further the blessings, for

ten years God blessed her and our family with a cottage within a 15-minute

walk right across the highway from the Ridgecrest Baptist Retreat Center.

Mother's delight was in the creator of those mountains. The same God who

has the power to "move" mountains!

With all that is going on in

our presidential electoral process, and with problems in the Middle East

and the hunger of the homeless, and all the problems we can think of at

this season of the year, there still is a scripture that speaks to us

in times like these. This article is just a recitation of a psalm that

praises God and lifts our hope for the future.

This psalm is about our creator,

who is the alpha and the omega. Our creator who is everlasting to everlasting.

The creator who "neither slumbers nor sleeps." Psalm 121: "I

will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help

cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer

thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he

that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

"The Lord is thy keeper:

the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee

he shall preserve thy soul.

"The Lord shall preserve

thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore."

Amen and happy Thanksgiving.

We are thankful for many things this Thanksgiving season and especially

for our modular chapel unit, which showed up on our property Tuesday,

Nov. 21. When we get it all hooked up, I want you to come visit us.

We are affectionately now called

the "Double Wide on 85," which is our temporary facility until

we build our permanent structure.

The Rev. Dr. Knox Herndon is

the pastor of His House Community Church (SBC) and a substitute school

teacher in the Fayette County School System, and a former Army chaplain.

The church is currently meeting in the American Legion Log Cabin across

from the fountain on the Square in Fayetteville, but will be moving to

a new location near Senoia in December. Prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail

[email protected].