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Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 04, 2008 @ 7:00 AM

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us;
we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
~C.S. Lewis
Taken from the website Beyond the Loneliest Star.

This Saturday, August 30, Tulsa new arena where large amounts of people can meet to see famous entertainers is finally opening.
The free Labor Day weekend festivities kick off with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:00am. The center will be open for all to view the inside. Even the dressing rooms! Samples of the concession foods will also be available for just $1 per item. All the local news stations around town are covering it. The actual ribbon-cutting at the Grand Entrance located at 3rd Street and Denver Avenue. Free parking is available at 100 West Parking Lot which is located between 1st and 2nd Streets on Cheyenne. Here are some more details.
Here are some sneakpeak videos.
KTUL
KJRH
KOTV
BOk website

Here’s the free stuff @ Craig’s List in the Tulsa. Here’s his list!

If they had been willing to recant their Christian faith, their lives would have been spared. Given their commitment to Christ, such a choice was unthinkable. They placed not only their lives but the life of their baby, Helen Priscilla, in the hands of God, confident that God could protect them if He chose, and, if He chose not to, it was safer to be in those hands than anywhere else in the universe.
A great influence to Christian missionary, Elizabeth Elliot was Betty Stam. Here is a devotional from Back to the Bible describing her life.
I researched further and found a website of a relative to the Stams. That gives more details to their story. The info is at CarlStam.org. Notice their gravestones.

When we consecrate ourselves to God,
we think we are making a great sacrifice,
and doing lots for Him,
when really we are only letting go some little, bitsie trinkets we have been grabbing,
and when our hands are empty,
He fills them full of His treasures.
~Betty Stam
Here is a picture and the story of Helen Priscilla Stam, daughter of John and Betty
Taken from a website called Glimpses of Christian History. A site worth exploring.

Taken from Streams In The Desert by Mrs. Charles Cowman @ Back To The Bible.org
I have all, and abound” (Phil. 4:18).
In one of my garden books there is a chapter with a very interesting heading, “Flowers that Grow in the Gloom.” It deals with those patches in a garden which never catch the sunlight. And my guide tells me the sort of flowers which are not afraid of these dingy corners–may rather like them and flourish in them.
And there are similar things in the world of the spirit. They come out when material circumstances become stern and severe. They grow in the gloom. How can we otherwise explain some of the experiences of the Apostle Paul?

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Here are a variety of games to give your brain some exercise on About.com.

Taken from the website emule.com
My husband pulls old tv shows from the internet. Lately we’ve been enjoying The Waltons. John Boy was reading to a couple of his young siblings and he read them this poem:
The Little Orphan Annie
James Whitcomb Riley
Little Orphan Annie’s come to my house to stay.
To wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away.
To shoo the chickens from the porch and dust the hearth and sweep,
and make the fire and bake the bread to earn her board and keep.
While all us other children, when the supper things is done,
we sit around the kitchen fire and has the mostest fun,
a listening to the witch tales that Annie tells about
and the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!
Once there was a little boy who wouldn’t say his prayers,
and when he went to bed at night away up stairs,
his mammy heard him holler and his daddy heard him bawl,
and when they turned the covers down,
he wasn’t there at all!
They searched him in the attic room
and cubby hole and press
and even up the chimney flu and every wheres, I guess,
but all they ever found of him was just his pants and round-abouts
and the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!!
Once there was a little girl who always laughed and grinned
and made fun of everyone, of all her blood and kin,
and once when there was company and old folks was there,
she mocked them and she shocked them and said, she didn’t care.
And just as she turned on her heels and to go and run and hide,
there was two great big black things a standing by her side.
They snatched her through the ceiling fore she knew what shes about,
and the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!!
When the night is dark and scary,
and the moon is full and creatures are a flying and the wind goes Whoooooooooo,
you better mind your parents and your teachers fond and dear,
and cherish them that loves ya, and dry the orphans tears
and help the poor and needy ones that cluster all about,
or the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!!!

Taken from Heartlight.org.
“Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
— William Shakespeare