33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
34 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD,
OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?
35 Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN?
36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

Jim Daly is the CEO of the Christian non-profit organization, Focus on the Family. Daly recently wrote a book called Finding Home that tells of his difficult childhood. He also was interviewed on Family Life Today. Here are three interesting thirty minute programs.
Day 1 Early Setbacks
Day 2 Rising Above Victimhood
Day 3 Finding A New Life In Christ

I was recently was in our small town library and came across a book that got my full attention. The book is The Gentlemen, The Life of Joseph A. LaFortune (1979). There is a park in Tulsa named after this man and the previous mayor was a member of the Lafortune family.
I love bios. I had to check out the book so I can figure out the question, What made this man a success? It’ll be fun discovering the answer.
Here are 27 other famous successful energy pioneers of Tulsa’s past:
(Taken from Energy Advocates website)

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2003:
On this day in 2003, American entrepreneur and domestic lifestyle innovator Martha Stewart was indicted on criminal charges in relation to a stock sale, and in 2004 she was convicted and sentenced to five months in prison.
1970:

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Here’s a great devotional from OnePlace.com and Daily Living For Seniors.
They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green. –Psalm 92:14

1953: Elizabeth II crowned queen
On this day in 1953, 27-year-old Elizabeth II, the elder daughter of King George VI, was crowned queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey, having taken the throne upon her father’s death in February 1952.
1997: A jury in Denver, Colorado, found Timothy McVeigh of the militia movement guilty of murder and conspiracy in the deaths of 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and he was executed in June 2001.
1946: In the aftermath of World War II, the people of Italy passed a referendum to replace the governing monarchy with a republic.
1940: Constantine II, king of Greece from 1964 to 1974, was born in Psikhikó, near Athens.
1886: Frances Folsom, age 21, married U.S. President Grover Cleveland in the White House and became the youngest first lady in American history.
1865: Confederate soldiers yielded to Federal troops in Galveston, Texas, marking one of the final land operations of the American Civil War.
1840: English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, who set much of his work in Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England, was born.