Deployment Time

Our ALERT Cadet unit is headed to Arkansas today to clean up from the ice storm earlier this month. We will be staying with a local church and cleaning up widow's and elderly members yards as well as a few jobs another church has contacted us with. Pray that the weather would stay good. There is a chance of rain tonight and possibly into the early morning Saturday. Also please pray that our crew of 20 will be safe as they work in this environment.

The Blessings of God

My newest tool of the trade... A Canon "L" series f/2.8 24-70mm lens. This lens is absolutely phenomenal. With it in low light situations I have already been able to capture some amazing photographs!

Verse(s) of the Day!

Proverbs 24

Verse 2 "through Wisdom is a house builded; and by understanding it is established:"

Verse 16 "For the just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again..."

How am I living my life? Is it to the honor and glory of the Lord? In this day-in-age it is so easy for us/me to get my focus off the Lord. I can be so busy with school, ministry, family, or even "church" that the Lord is no longer the focus of my heart. Holiness? Is that what I am striving for in my daily life? That involves removing ALL distractions that might limit draw my focus off Him. Stand Strong for Him.

Blessings,

Michael...

Monday I shot my brother's Senior pictures. Elizabeth came a long to with mom and we all had a great time. A few of these pictures were taken by Elizabeth. After it was all said and done we all agreed that we have the most handsome brother EVER! :)




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Rules for Driving in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Only those that drive in Tulsa or those that have driven in Tulsa will appreciate this.

Rules for Driving in Tulsa, Oklahoma

If your Tulsa map is more than a few weeks old, throw it out and buy a new one.

If you're in Broken Arrow where one street has three names...such as Lynn Lane aka

177th E. Ave and 9th St. and your map is one day old, it is already obsolete.

Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Tulsa has its own version of traffic rules.

All directions start with 'Get on Memorial' which has no beginning and no end.

Everything in Tulsa is 'just off Memorial.'

The morning rush hour is from 6 to 10. The evening rush hour is from 3 to 7.

Friday's rush hour starts Thursday morning.

If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be rear ended, cussed

out and possibly shot. When you are the first one on the starting line,

count to five when the light turns green before going to avoid crashing

with all the drivers running the red light in cross-traffic.

Construction on I-44 is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment.

All unexpected or strange sights are explained by the phrase,

'Oh, we're in Jenks.'

If someone actually has a turn signal on, it is probably a factory defect.

All old ladies with blue hair in Mercedes have the right of way. PERIOD.

I-44 is called the Skelly Bypass. No one has ever figured out what it bypasses...

State Highway 51 is either the Broken Arrow Expressway or the Keystone

Expressway, depending on which way you're headed. US64 comes up Memorial

from Bixby, joins 169 for a few miles, and then heads west with SH 51 towards

Sand Springs. Several highways like the Creek Turnpike have no number.

We don't understand it either.

Maps of Tulsa show an Interstate 444 in downtown Tulsa. If you find it, let us know.

The alleged I-444 is half of the inner-dispersal loop, which is not for the faint of heart.

Highway 169 in rush hour is the Tulsa equivalent of NASCAR.

Just shut up and drive like the rest of us.

If asking directions along North Utica or in west Tulsa , you must have knowledge

of Spanish. If you're on East 21st Street, Mandarin Chinese or Vietnamese will be

your best bet. If you stop to ask directions on Pine or Peoria, you better be armed.

The minimum acceptable speed on the Broken Arrow Expressway is 85.

Anything less is considered downright sissy.

If it's 100 degrees, Thanksgiving must be next weekend.

If it's 10 degrees and snowing, it's homecoming at TU.

If it's rained 6 inches in the last hour, and it is spring, it's opening day for the Drillers.

If it is fall, the Tulsa State Fair is going on.

All amusement parks, stadiums, arenas, race tracks, airports, etc., are conveniently located

as far away from EVERYTHING as possible so as to allow for ample parking on grassy areas.

With these simple rules in mind, you are now ready to drive in Tulsa.

Is headed to the Gun Shop!!!

:)

A day at the range.

Today Dad and I took our CHL course. :) The class was really slow and boring. :) The shoot was fun but I did much better last month. :)

Today....

Today started out on a good note. I scored a 96 on one of my EMT test!!! PTL. I need to get off to bed because yesterday is still an early morning. Blessings and May His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.