3 things I love about Oklahoma…
1. Less traffic;
2. QT gas stations…the best in the country
3. Friendly people EVERYWHERE.
3 things I could live without…
1. People who drive UNDER the speed limit (okay, not limited to OK, but there does seem to be an inordinate amount of drivers like that here);
2. Wranglers everywhere!!!!
3. Living 10 hours from it.
I realized the true beauty of Google maps this week. My wife left for a trip to Oklahoma and then on to Dallas to help her sister with a family matter. The first great use was when she called from Tulsa and could not find her Sister’s apartment. Yahoo had messed it up. So I jumped on google and directer her turn by turn. You could say I was her personal GPS system.
Then later that night as they were looking for the hotel in Dallas, I provided turn by turn directions again thanks to Google. We almost bought a GPS unit before she left, but decided to save the money.
Gotta love it when technology really does help you.
I’ve blogged about them before and I’m still getting my coffee from them. In fact, I’m thinking we need Land of a Thousand Hills coffee for East Campus! Here’s a video about what they are doing. I want to have some fun with this so the first one who comments gets a free bag of Thousand Hills coffee! Now just to make sure you watch the video you will have to tell me what the video says the farmers used to earn per lb when they worked alone and what they earn on average with partnership.
It was sad for mom to do it, but Daisy really wanted to donate to Locks of Love. I loved her long hair, but she looks beautiful in her shorter dew.
I’m the type that loves to hit the day running. I don’t like to get up and eat breakfast, read the paper, read my Bible or really do anything else before I go to work. To make sure I do the things that matter, like READING MY BIBLE and jogging, I set my alarm for 6 which leaves me plenty of time to be at the church by 8 (even though I’d rather be there by 7). And so today as I was jogging by my neighbor’s house he asks if he can get a ride to work for his first day of training. After about 5 seconds of thinking, “this is going to make me late” I got over myself and worked it out that I actually would go in later in order to get him to work closer to his start time. And it was great to connect with him on the drive in.
Know this: I’m not bragging about a good deed. I’m confessing that I even had 5 seconds of feeling inconvenienced when a neighbor needed my help. If I don’t think my FIRST job is to help my neighbor, then I’m not following Jesus of the Bible. After all, he did have something to say about our neighbor…
It’s been a rather ironic few days of goodbye’s. Not so much me saying goodbye but being around a lot of others doing that.
1st on Thursday Kevin, Julie (East Campus Children’s Director) and a few others helped clean out the now closed Community Christian Church’s belongings from the building they had rented for church. To me it was just stuff that was being donated to the Rummage Sale for the Women’s center. But to them it represented 25 years of ministry. It’s hard for them to say goodbye to it. Yet I now they are expectant of great ministry at Suncrest-East. Btw, the rummage sale raised $2000 for the Women’s Center.
On Friday I went to the visitation for Steve Szoke. Even though it had just started a long line had already formed. I can’t imagine what his wife, child and mom and dad are going through. Yet, I know they are held together by the fact they will see him again in eternity. His legacy will live on in his family and the church that was his dream, Impact Christian Church.
And today, I performed a funeral for the father of a Suncrester. I was very disappointed by the service the funeral home gave. This is not the first time I witnessed poor service for a family. It’s one thing to have poor service over dinner. It’s another when you are trying to grieve the loss of a loved one. I pray God will use something from the few moments I shared with them. I could only detect faith from a few of the family members.
