Taken from Streams In The Desert @ OnePlace.com
What am I to do?
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good work, therefore, any kindness, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal let me do it now.
Let me not neglect or defer it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
–An Old Quaker Saying
It isn’t the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word unspoken,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of your brother’s way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time or thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
These little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind,
These chances to be angels,
Which even mortals find
They come in night and silence,
Each chill reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short, dear.
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it’s not the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache,
At the setting of the sun.
–Adelaide Proctor
Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think. –Longfellow

Here a short news video from the Christian organization, CitizenLink.
http://www.citizenlink.org/flashplayers/mediaplayer.swf
Here’s their website link.

How fun!!

Some more fun in Colorado, to the song Where Eagles Fly by Sammy Hagar

The National Day of Prayer website provides opportunity to pray for the elections that will come in November.

There are 5k events in Tulsa that would be alot of fun for families. Here are some examples:
August 16
Riverside 5000
August 23
GetFitTulsa Mud Run
September 6
Walk/Run For a Drug-free Life
Still more 5ks @ OkRunner.com~ The list gets longer from week to week.

Did you know you can go Kayaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
@ the Riverside Parks website you can learn some details.
People like to kayak on the Zink Lake which is located near the Zink Dam. It is an impoundment pool between 29th street and 11 street/Southwest Boulevard. Along the west bank of the river south of Zink Dam is an area of whitewater that is created by a rock jetty.
There is also a Zink Island that you could go by on your little adventure. This man-made island in Zink Lake is used by the endangered Interior Least Tern for nesting. The island may be observed from the River Parks area near 15th Street, which features a bench dedicated to the late Fred Pianalto, a Tulsa Audubon member who first publicized the Least Terns on the River and was known as the “Birdman of River Parks”. Here’s it is on Google Maps.

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I found this excellent advice on the Oprah Winfrey site

If you have an interest in learning about birds in Tulsa check out the Tulsa Audobon Society website. On the site they have a guide to birding in Oklahoma.

Taken from Joy and Strength @ OnePlace.com
PEACE of heart lies in perfect resignation to the will of God.
What you need is true simplicity,
a certain calmness of spirit which comes from entire surrender to all that God wills,
patience and toleration for your neighbor’s faults,
and a certain candor and childlike docility in acknowledging your own faults.
The trouble you feel about so many things comes from your not accepting everything which may happen to you, with sufficient resignation to God.
Put all things, then, in His hands, and offer them beforehand to Him in your heart, as a sacrifice.
From the moment when you cease to want things to be according to your own judgment,
and accept unconditionally whatever He sends,
you will be free from all your uneasy retrospects and anxieties about your own concerns.
~Francois De La Mother F? Nelson

“We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.”
— Mother Teresa
“There can be no doubt that possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the Christian life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.”
— A. W. Tozer