All right, I want you to turn to Psalm 42.

We'll be in some other scripture, but Psalm 42.

And it's going to be a little different, the message, in the fact that the Lord put something very strongly on my heart.

You know I'm not in a series this fall as I've said, I've just been doing messages as the Lord's

led me.

And the title of the message is under attack. The reason

I believe the Lord spoke this

message to me is because Christmas is a joyful time of year,

but we all seem to have some sort of sadness at this time also. I can remember the first Thanksgiving that we had that Josh was away at college and he couldn't come in he

would college in Florida and he couldn't come in for Thanksgiving but he could come in

for Christmas but he couldn't come in because if he was in Florida just a couple days off.

I think he only had Thanksgiving off,

actually, and had class on Friday.

And I remember walking into the room

before we all gathered for Thanksgiving meal

and Debbie was crying. and I was just thinking you know it's

Thanksgiving she said yeah but this is the first Thanksgiving since Josh was

born that he's not here you anyone relate to what I'm saying? I know the men are thinking,

it's Thanksgiving, it's Turkey, it's the Cowboys. I'm not really following you right now,

Pastor Robert.

But I want to also delve into that we all lose people on this earth. That's a part of living on this earth. And so I think at Christmas,

whether we have lost someone this year or a few years ago or maybe many years ago, it would simply be natural for us to think

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