Our daughter Nikki and many of your sons and daughters and relatives will be graduating in a few days and begin a whole new life.

As life moves on and we all grow up and look back at our high school days, they are looked upon by some as great events and to others they were suffering to endure. I loved school from the social perspective and did enjoy some courses, but I can still today remember some math courses I hated from the passion and depths of my soul.

I can remember a statistics course I took at Georgia State University that I needed for graduation. Once again it involved math so my “fear” shields were already up and working well. I had gotten a tutor and had a friend taking the class with me and had a prayer meeting going on at home. With that winning combination, I gloriously got a “C” out of it and to this day I am praising and thanking God for helping me to pass that course.

Some may differ with me on this next statement but I never put undue pressure on my children to make A's. We have, however, encouraged them to have good study habits and tried to create a loving home environment for learning, and strongly encouraged them to embrace the learning process.

Last week we attended the honors and awards ceremony at Sams Auditorium for Fayette County High School and watched all the wonderful students getting their very deserved accolades. It was also refreshing to see their teachers glow when they would talk about their students' accomplishments.

I smiled inside to think of my high school and college days and my wife's high school and college days. My wife, Dee, graduated as valedictorian of her high school and received many of the academic awards. I laughed to think of how some of us breezed through our education and how some, like me, struggled through. While people like my wife were graduating cum laude, I graduated with “THANK YOU LAWDY”!

There is for all of us the most important “awards ceremony” we will ever attend, and that is the one conducted by our heavenly father. As I understand God's word, there are only three things that will last in the final analysis; the word of God, the works of righteousness, and the souls of mankind. Come Lord Jesus, bring on Graduation Day. The diploma will read: “Well done my good and faithful servant!”

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. Prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail Khern2365@aol.com.

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