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The faint melody of the Okla-homa State alma mater faded into the dark at the core of cam-pus just after 8 p.m. Saturday.

On Library Lawn, illumi-nated only by the light shining through the windows of Edmon Low Library, nearly 100 people gathered at a student-led vigil to remember those killed and those fighting for their lives.

Students formed a circle around the remaining the home-coming signs speckled with words boasting loyalty, tradition and community — words with meanings that had been tested continuously since 10:31 a.m.

SEA OF CHAOSThrongs of people proudly

sporting orange gear packed the sidewalks surrounding the parade path. People in the parade passed out candy and waved with grins to those in the crowd. The OSU Sea of Orange Parade, a decades-old tradition, was in full swing.

And then it wasn’t.As the end of the entourage

neared Hall of Fame Av-enue and Main Street, a 2014 Hyundai Elantra burst through a barricade and smashed an unmanned police motorcycle before plunging into the crowd.

“I thought it was a bomb,” said Minjung Kwak, a multime-dia journalism junior who was

inches away from being struck by the vehicle.

Chaos ensued. People screamed. Some stood

in shock, mouths agape. Others rushed to the aid of those on the ground, administering CPR and signaling first responders. Three bodies lay in the street surround-ed by strewn glass and metal shards from the motorcycle.

Stillwater residents Marvin and Bonnie Stone, both 65, and University of Central Oklahoma student Nakita Prabhakar, 23, from Mumbai, were killed.

Sirens blared. People were cor-ralled from the gruesome scene, the bodies covered with tarps.

People sobbed. “I saw one woman, she was

crying so hard hugging her baby,” Kwak said. “I thought, ‘Maybe she’s as shocked as I am.’ But then people came to rescue, and I saw her crying even harder and

people took her baby, and I real-ized the baby was unconscious.”

Kwak later discovered the baby she saw, Nash Lucas, 2, died at OU Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Okla-homa City on Saturday evening from injuries suffered during the crash.

Medevac helicopters took eight people in critical condi-tion to OU Medical Center and Children’s Hospital. Nine people were seriously injured and taken by ambulance to Still-water Medical Center, and 17 others were classified as walk-ing wounded, Stillwater police Capt. Kyle Gibbs said at a press conference Saturday.

“I’ve been here 29 years,” Gibbs said. “I can’t recall an incident of this magnitude.”

THE ACCUSEDBy Sunday evening, 46 people

were listed as having been injured. More than half were treated and released.

Eleven of the injured were children.

The alleged driver of the vehicle, Adacia Avery Cham-bers, 25, from Stillwater, was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence and placed in the Stillwater City Jail, police said. Chambers is not an OSU student, said Gary Shutt, OSU spokesman.

Chambers had no previous criminal record, according to Oklahoma Supreme Courts Network.

Chambers’ attorney, Tony Coleman, stood behind his desk in Oklahoma City in front of a flock of reporters and held a news conference Sunday after-noon. Coleman said he could “absolutely rule out” alcohol as a substance of impairment at the

wheel. He said Chambers’ behavior

was not consistent with that of someone recovering from a “drunken stupor” when he met with her Saturday night.

He said he was “less than satisfied” with Chambers’ com-petency during his meeting with her and revealed she had dealt with mental illness in the past.

“There’s a family history of it,” Coleman said. “There have been warning signs for quite some time.”

He said he will request a men-tal competency evaluation.

Laura Thomas, Payne County district attorney, said on Satur-day that she asked the police to hold Chambers on at least three counts of manslaughter instead of any form of a driving under the influence charge.

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kurt steiss/O’COLLYA 2014 Hyundai Elantra drove through a barricade and smashed into an unmanned police motorcycle before plunging into the crowd at Oklahoma State’s Sea of Orange Parade on Saturday morning. Three people died at the scene. A 2-year-old died from injuries Saturday evening.


“All the evidence, once reviewed, may affect the degree of charges,” Thomas said in an email. “Numerous search war-rants are being executed and may provide us additional evidence.”

Stillwater police announced on Sunday that Chambers was being held in custody on additional charges of four counts of second-degree murder.

Thomas said Monday is the earliest charges can be filed. Chambers is scheduled to be ar-raigned at 1:30 p.m. on Monday at the Payne County Courthouse, she said.

THE AFTERMATHAfter much deliberation, Presi-

dent Burns Hargis announced the football game against Kansas would be played in remembrance of those killed.

“The families, I know, (of) these victims will never be able to understand (the tragedy) and neither will we,” Hargis said at a news conference Saturday. “But the Cowboy family pulls together. Unfortunately, we’ve had to do it before, and we’ll do it again.”

In January 2001, 10 people, who were OSU students and faculty, were killed in a plane crash. In November 2011, two OSU women’s basketball coaches and a former state senator and his wife were killed in a plane crash in Arkansas.

Saturday’s tragic events overshadowed any monumental moves on the gridiron. Although the Cowboys won, it seemed trivial to celebrate the addition of another “W” to their record when so many in the community were hurting, physically and emotion-ally.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin spoke to the media at a news conference in Stillwater during halftime.

She said watching the droves of people walk to the stadium helped her put the situation in

perspective.“It was just a great remem-

brance that you never know that life can be fleeting really quick-ly,” Fallin said.

Lee Bird, vice president of OSU Student Affairs, said she spent the day consoling families at the Stillwater Medical Center and tending to their needs, ob-serving the community selflessly unite.

“It just touches my heart that people think, ‘Oh, I bet the hospital could use bottled water; I’ll drop it off,’” she said. “This is a very caring community, and it just shows again and again. Every time (there’s a tragedy) there are

people that come out that care about each other that are looking for people who need help and do-ing the right thing.”

Bird said she was manning a parking lot for United Way when she received the news about the crash. Her priority was to contact a group of counselors who know tragedy within the OSU commu-nity all too well.

“I called my counselors who have answered the call with plane crashes and everything else we’ve gone through since 2000,” Bird said.

She said she has come to know the OSU community as resilient, strong and caring.

“Everybody is shocked that this happened, everybody is upset, but we’ll get through it and help sup-port those that were lost or need care or need help, and we’ll get through it together,” Bird said.

She said area schools such as Langston University and the Uni-versity of Oklahoma have offered their condolences to OSU.

“Oklahoma is really a rare breed of cat and a very caring community and when the chips are down everybody shows up and is ready to help,” she said.

‘MORE THAN JUST THE FOUR’

At the end of the day, four

orange lights were left to float atop the iconic campus fountain, each light a solemn reminder of a life lost.

During the vigil, OSU students Briar Lostlen and Alex Hanson placed orange lights in the middle of Library Lawn.

Lostlen, an electrical engineer-ing sophomore, said the lights symbolized the victims.

“It was more than just the four people,” Lostlen said. “There were thousands of people affect-ed. Everyone at OSU, everyone at Stillwater.”

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kurt steiss/O’COLLYMedevac helicopters took eight people in critical condition to OU Medical Center and Children’s Hospital on Saturday morning.


Remembering those lost

Nikita Prabhakar Nakal, 23, was in America for only three months before Saturday’s Sea of Orange Homecoming Parade. She attended the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond working on her Master’s in Business Administration.

Brandon Lehman, UCO assistant director for international recruitment, first enrolled Nakal when she arrived. He said she had a personality and was full of hope and drive.

“She seemed very kind, and she had just a genuine smile,” Lehman said. “She was excited, she seemed bright. … You could tell in her mind that this was a big deal, a big step for her in her career.

“She was one of those people that you really wish the best for, you just hope to see them succeed in life.”

Nash Lucas, 2, son of Josh Lucas and Nicolette Strauch, died at OU Medical Center Children’s Hospital Saturday evening after injuries suffered during the crash. Strauch works for OSU Parking and Transportation Services. Parking and Transportation Services director Steve Spradling helped create a GoFundMe page to help Strauch pay for medical bills and Lucas’ memorial service. After 10 hours, 646 people donated $28,465.

Marvin Lyle Stone, and his wife, Bonnie Jean Stone, both 65, died in Saturday’s tragedy during the homecoming parade.

Stone taught at Oklahoma State University for 24 years, retiring in 2006. Stone was well known among his students for his talents in teaching and mentoring. The Marvin and Bonnie Stone Endowed Scholarship Fund was established after his retirement, and the first scholarship was awarded in 2007.

Bonnie Stone worked in OSU’s Institutional Research and Information Management department. Neighbors said she planned to retire next year, after an update to the SIS system she oversaw was completed.

A small memorial adorned the front door to their house in Stillwater, including flowers and an orange bow tied around the handle. Neighbors described the Stones as friendly.

“He and I talked almost every day,” said neighbor Max Andrews. “He was very encouraging. I’m just heartbroken.”Ernie Robinson, another neighbor, said Stone was always friendly and ready to help.“If someone was out, he’d go over and talk with them and ask them if they needed help,” Robinson said.“Bonnie, in nice weather, would ride her bicycle to work every day.” Robinson said he and his wife found out Sunday morning the Stones were two of the victims of Saturday’s tragedy.“When I saw Marv’s name … my mouth dropped open and we both just sat there numb for a little bit,” Robinson said. “We’re

all still in shock. It’s hard to believe.”

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It was supposed to be fun. It was supposed to be candy

thrown to children donning Oklahoma State cheerleading outfits or miniature orange jer-seys. It was supposed to be tire-less hand waving, school spirit and later on, a football game, the homecoming football game.

But instead, the Sea of Orange Homecoming Parade turned into a tragedy that many won’t forget.

Bret Wilson, 45, was running late to the parade. He wasn’t sure whether he and his family would arrive in time, but that caused no significant spikes on Wilson’s radar.

Something else did. As the parade came to a close,

Wilson and his family stood on the north end of the parade near the accident.

Twenty-five-year-old Adacia Chambers’ car created a devas-tating finale to the homecom-ing parade, hitting a barricade, police motorcycle, many parade viewers and, finally, a pole.

“The first thing we did was to try and get the car — the car that the lady had crashed,” Wilson said. “We didn’t know if there were people possibly under the vehicle, so there were people trying to move the vehicle. … I don’t think it turned out that there were people under it, I don’t believe.

“But then I basically went from area to area trying to help do what I could, which included – which I really feel like all that I did was get blankets. I was like grabbing blankets from people and giving them to the people that were injured. And it was kind of chilly and the people were lying there in the street.”

Wilson was at the scene for a couple of hours, but, to him, it felt like forever.

“It just seemed like it took forever,” Wilson said. “It seemed like it took forever for first responders to get ‘em to emer-gency care. So I don’t know. It was pretty traumatic, pretty

traumatic.” For Zach Gray, 27, the ac-

cident at the homecoming parade also put the concept of time into question. Gray; his wife, Cara, and their 11-month-old daughter, Frankie, moved back to Still-water only a week before the homecoming game.

Gray and his family had walked away from Hall of Fame Avenue and Main Street only minutes before the accident.

“We definitely would’ve been (hit),” Gray said. “We were in the path, had we not left when we did. Who knows what would’ve happened to us. I’m trying not to think about what

could’ve been for my family, but I know that reality is someone else’s reality right now. I’m definitely concerned for those people.”

Gray and his family left the parade early to eat at Bagel Café because the parade was wind-ing down, and his daughter was getting tired. After they were seated, Gray noticed commo-tion outside of the restaurant and moved toward the window where he saw people fleeing thescene.

“A couple of people were crying; most people just had their mouths open or were just in shock,” Gray said. “I knew something really bad had hap-

pened.” Gray waited to go outside

to avoid getting in the way of first responders. He eventually walked out and saw the wreck-age of the police motorcycle the car hit, the destroyed children’s bicycles and covered bodies of those pronounced dead at the scene. Gray also observed people on stretchers being lifted into the beds of pickup trucks rather than ambulances.

Steven Queen, 33, also had a daughter to worry about. Queen attended the parade with his daughter, Emma, 3, who was on the Child Development Labora-tory float. The float was the last to turn the corner by the inter-section, Queen said.

“It was weird because I went there to take her, and I enjoyed it,” Queen said. “I was in utter delight handing candy out to all the children, adults, everybody yelling ‘Go Pokes.’ It was pure happiness that followed, with just pure sadness in just a flash.”

After diving out of the path of Chambers’ car, Queen was hit by debris, but he wasn’t injured. His first instinct was to find his daughter.

“She was a 3-year-old, and she didn’t need to see anything like that,” Queen said. “I just didn’t know what was happening, so I grabbed her and just kept run-ning.”

Queen said he looked forward to the parade all week because he would be able to bring his daughter.

“I was really excited to take her and see how she reacted to all the floats and the bands and all the hubbub,” he said. “So this is the first parade that I’ve ever wanted to go to, and it will defi-nitely be one I won’t forget.”

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kurt steiss/O’COLLYAwoman and a boy stand near the scene of a crash that occurred at the intersection of Hall of Fame and Main during the OSU homecoming parade on Oct. 24 in Stillwater.


There was a football game Saturday.

The Oklahoma State Cowboys beat the Kansas Jayhawks 58-10 at Boone Pickens Stadium on homecoming.

The game was not a monumen-tal one. The 10th-ranked Cowboys are a good team but likely not great. The Jayhawks, now 0-7, are on track to be possibly the worst in Big 12 history.

It was not important. So let’s start over.

***They turned and they heard

screams. People, children, objects were in the air. Some said they heard tires screeching. Others claim there was no screech; that damn car kept going.

At least four people were killed and 44 more were injured Satur-day at 10:31 a.m. when a Hyundai Elantra sped through a barrier set up for the annual Sea of Orange Parade at Hall of Fame and Main, police said.

Adacia Chambers was driving south on Main when she hit that barrier, ran over an unmanned po-lice motorcycle and crashed into the back of some 50 people at the end of the parade’s route, accord-ing to police.

Chambers, 25, was arrested at the scene on a complaint of driv-ing under the influence. Mean-while, an intersection was covered in debris, lost shoes, an empty

stroller.Tanner Baird, a freshman

strategic communications major, was feet away from Chambers’ car when it finally came to a stop at the other end of the intersection. He could have reached out and touched the vehicle that caused the destruction. He remembers hearing a boom, like an amplified T-shirt cannon, then seeing a car barreling toward him.

“There were so many people lying on the ground, and it hap-pened so quickly that we didn’t know what to do,” Baird said. “It literally happened in the blink of an eye. “

Medevac helicopters transported five children and three adults to OU Medical Center and The Chil-dren’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. Tarps covered two bodies still in the street. Three adults were killed at the scene, and a 2-year-old boy later died.

An hour and a half later, Still-water Police Capt. Randy Gibbs held a press conference to explain the unexplainable. OSU President Burns Hargis took the task of finding the right words to comfort a community. It is a job he is good at because he has the misfortune of doing it before.

“The Oklahoma State Home-

coming Parade is one of the most wholesome, happy events in the country,” Hargis said. “To have it fouled like this is a terrible tragedy.”

Baird and his roommate ended up back at Bennett Hall, puzzled to learn time was continuing.

“We were by Bennett carrying on and we were just like, ‘You don’t have a clue. Us being right there, we had a totally different at-titude about the day,’” Baird said.

Two hours later, 59,486 OSU faithful headed two blocks west to Boone Pickens Stadium while that intersection sat eerily quiet, taped off from all angles. A few police

officers cleaned up the scene as ROTC members told straggling fans to find a different way to the stadium.

There was a tragedy. And then there was a football game.

***The massive American flag at

the southeast corner of BPS was at half-staff as the Cowboys ran onto the field, gathered to say the Lord’s Prayer and prepared to spend the ensuing three hours sacrificing their bodies to win a game.

David Glidden, a senior wide receiver who has cheered for the Cowboys his entire life, broke the team out of its pregame huddle. A TV broadcast caught his words, profane because sometimes emo-tion makes such language accept-able if not necessary.

“Here we go baby,” Glidden said. “This is the whole f---ing community right here.”

The game itself felt off, almost wrong. OSU coach Mike Gundy was in a meeting with his as-sistant coaches when someone looked at their phone and saw the news. The world stopped, if only for a few moments.

“You’re talking defense, you’re talking offense, you’re talking special teams. … When you hear about an incident like that, football is a nonfactor,” Gundy said. “You start calling and find out where your family’s at.”

Hargis and other school ad-ministrators discussed the idea of postponing or canceling the game. They decided to move forward but made a concentrat-ed effort to honor the victims.

When the football team went out for The Walk — its tradi-tional march down Hester Street to Boone Pickens Stadium — the pulsating boom of the marching

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band was missing. The silence only made the emotion more palpable.

“We weren’t allowed to have the music playing and the band and everything, but it showed you that people were still cheering and going crazy,” Glidden said. “You could see the looks in their eyes. The support, it was very emotional for us. … It really helped us kind of regroup.”

Quarterback J.W. Walsh said the day reminded him of four years ago in Ames, Iowa, when the Cowboys played and lost a stunner to Iowa State the same day they learned of a plane crash that killed four members of the OSU family, including women’s basketball coaches Kurt Budke and Miranda Serna.

In 2011, they woke up and heard the news. Saturday, they woke up, went to meetings and heard the news.

“The atmosphere, the mood, it was all pretty similar,” Walsh said.

The community still made its way to the game, perhaps in search of an escape, perhaps longing for camaraderie or perhaps oblivious to the magnitude of what hap-pened.

The somber feeling lingered in the air, but optimism wasn’t absent.

Larry Reece, OSU’s beloved PA announcer who is returning from cancer this season, said before the opening kickoff the community would come together.

“We’ve done it before, and we’ll do it again,” Reece bellowed, “because this is OUR HOME, this is OUR FAMILY, this is OUR TEAM.”

The narrative that a football game could make everything better for a few hours is nice, but it isn’t true.

“We really didn’t want to go to the game,” Baird said. “Something like that just made us want to sit down and say how thankful we really are. We ended up going, but it wasn’t the same as going to

first couple of games, having all this energy. Our minds were with the families that were impacted by this.”

There was a moment of silence. Then the crowd roared as Ben Grogan kicked off because cheer-ing was part of the plan — come to Stillwater for America’s Greatest Homecoming Celebration, be part of the Walkaround, watch the parade, go to the game and see the Cowboys win.

Not everyone could be so lucky.“To be honest with you, it

wouldn’t have upset me if they would have said we’re not play-ing today. … It just seemed too soon,” defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer said. “I hope (the game

helped). But those people that lost loved ones and those people in the hospital with loved ones who are hanging on could care less right now.”

***The Cowboys made easy work

of the Jayhawks.They scored twice in the first

quarter on two Walsh touchdown runs, then again early in the second when Miketavius Jones blocked a punt, scooped the ball and ran into the end zone.

OSU took a 35-10 lead into half-time while Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin met with media members to discuss the crash. She talked of the strength of community, of people coming together to lift the car off

people it had pinned. She talked of mothers worried about sons and eventually of the same resiliency that got the state through tragedies such as the Oklahoma City Bomb-ing and the May 2013 tornadoes.

“The community itself really came and showed the Oklahoma Spirit, the Oklahoma Standard that we’re so proud of in times of dif-ficulty,” Fallin said.

The contest turned into a certi-fied blowout as the OSU run game looked improved and Walsh be-came the game’s star in the second half.

Walsh, the team’s backup quarterback, took advantage of his special packages and finished with six carries for 24 yards and three

touchdowns and completed five passes in five attempts, adding 68 yards and another two scores.

OSU played well in all three facets of the game and improved to 7-0. Students and alumni got to come together. But it didn’t heal.

This time, football was not a bandage or a rallying point. Football was a game, and one that happened to take place hours after a catastrophe.

“We just did what we did and there were no answers,” Spencer said. “We hurt. We recognize it’s a tragedy, and you play a football game.”

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kurt steiss/O’COLLYOklahoma State safety Jordan Sterns bows his head during a moment of silence before the Cowboys’ game against Kansas on Saturday. The teams played four hours after a car drove through the crowd at OSU’s homecoming parade.


Siera Coulter, a physiology sophomore, and Taylor Tyson, an apparel merchandising sophomore, reflect on the incident at a memorial on Hall of Fame and Main on Sunday.

People show support with memorial at scene of car crash at Hall of Fame and Main

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Makayla Medrano, a student at Stillwater Middle School, leaves a note at the memorial on Hall of Fame and Main on Sunday.


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Today’s Birthday (10/26/15). Friends bring expansion, travel and fortune this year. Collaborate on community solutions. Play the big-gest game possible. Money comes easily, if you work for it. New love lights you up this spring. Revise plans to adapt for changes. Your crew reaches new heights this autumn. Focus on shared passion.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Make a new beginning after a poignant ending. Patiently explain your view. Keep everyone informed. Reassess your assets. Discover forgotten treasure. There’s money coming today and tomorrow, too. You see opportunities every-where. Accept a long distance challenge.Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re more confident (and perhaps impatient) today and tomorrow. Public obligations interfere with private time. New possibilities stretch old boundaries. A friend says hello or goodbye. Revive your partner’s self-esteem. Overlook a sassy remark.Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Take deep breaths. There’s plenty of confusion at the top. Your calm can be contagious. Find the humor. Changes a level up can affect you positively. Finish what you said you’d have done. Peaceful productivity soothes today and tomorrow.Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Your team comes to your rescue today and tomorrow. Ignore the group situation for a rude awakening. Ask tough questions. Big decisions have to be made. Go for distance, not speed. Give up something you don’t need.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Assume more responsibil-ity at work over the next few days. Expect a test or challenge. Don’t alienate a colleague. An unusual solution appears, as things don’t go as planned. A windfall opportunity reveals an unimagined opportunity.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Higher education, travel and exploration calls to you over the next few days. An outrageous suggestion is starting to seem reasonable. You may decide to start over and begin again. Clarify any doubt. Pursue creative projects that animate you.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Keep your patience with finances. Manage numbers with your partner today and tomorrow. Emotional leverage may be applied, and a few surprises. Take a time out if necessary. Try again later. Find an error in your favor.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Collaborate to produce a work of art over the next few days. Work together to get the job done. Express your emotions and feelings. Inspire one another. Move people to action. Make the changes you’ve been wanting.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re entering a two-day busy phase. Don’t get stopped by silly arguments. Listen first before advancing, to avoid a communications breakdown. Invent creative and unusual ideas. Clean up messes. Whatever love you give is returned.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Things seem easier to-day and tomorrow. Relax and play with family and friends. Talk about love. Figure out what you want. Practice your skills and tricks. Listen with an ear for hidden elements. Investigate and study. Disagree persuasively.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Enjoy a practical domestic phase today and tomorrow. Fix leaks immediately and save. Make a change you’ve been longing for. Paint is inexpensive. Put time and en-ergy into a renovation. Let emotions pass through you. Create beauty.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Begin a two-day voracious learning phase. Your proposal could seem impossible. Follow your inner voice. Take a leap of faith. Look at the situation from a differ-ent angle. Keep your objective in mind. Convince a skeptic. Publish when ready.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 26, 2015

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RESTING IN JESUS!

An old hymn goes something l ike An old hymn goes something l ike this; “Under his wings I am safely abiding, though the night deepens and tempests are wild. Stil l I can trust him; I know he will keep me. He has redeemed me and I am his child.”The Bible tells us that “there reThe Bible tells us that “there re-mains a rest to the people of God.” (Heb.4:9) John 15 tells us of much fruit can be produced in and through the one who “abides” in Christ. One aspect of abiding is resting. He is seated in heaven because his work of salvation is because his work of salvation is f inished. Here is someone we can fully trust because “he now sits at the right hand of God with all power and authority. (Matt.28:18) He never changes; “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (He.13:8) He tells us forever.” (He.13:8) He tells us “never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Heb.13:5) He loves

us with a steadfast love. (Ro.8:3839)It is a rest of faith that is ours in Christ. It is an active trust that we can chose and practice each day. This trust is based on the character and promise of God. These never change. There is anothThese never change. There is anoth-er old hymn that goes l ike this;“My faith has found a resting place, not in a manmade creed: I trust the ever l iving one, that he for me will plead.Enough for me that Jesus saves, this ends my fears and doubt: A sinful soul I come to Him, he will not cast me out.My soul is resting on the Word, the My soul is resting on the Word, the l iving Word of God: Salvation in my Savior’s name, salvation through his blood.Chorus: I need no other evidence, I Chorus: I need no other evidence, I need no other plea: It is enough that Jesus died and rose again for me.”

RESTING IN JESUS!

An old hymn goes something l ike An old hymn goes something l ike this; “Under his wings I am safely abiding, though the night deepens and tempests are wild. Stil l I can trust him; I know he will keep me. He has redeemed me and I am his child.”The Bible tells us that “there reThe Bible tells us that “there re-mains a rest to the people of God.” (Heb.4:9) John 15 tells us of much fruit can be produced in and through the one who “abides” in Christ. One aspect of abiding is resting. He is seated in heaven because his work of salvation is because his work of salvation is f inished. Here is someone we can fully trust because “he now sits at the right hand of God with all power and authority. (Matt.28:18) He never changes; “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (He.13:8) He tells us forever.” (He.13:8) He tells us “never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Heb.13:5) He loves

us with a steadfast love. (Ro.8:3839)It is a rest of faith that is ours in Christ. It is an active trust that we can chose and practice each day. This trust is based on the character and promise of God. These never change. There is anothThese never change. There is anoth-er old hymn that goes l ike this;“My faith has found a resting place, not in a manmade creed: I trust the ever l iving one, that he for me will plead.Enough for me that Jesus saves, this ends my fears and doubt: A sinful soul I come to Him, he will not cast me out.My soul is resting on the Word, the My soul is resting on the Word, the l iving Word of God: Salvation in my Savior’s name, salvation through his blood.Chorus: I need no other evidence, I Chorus: I need no other evidence, I need no other plea: It is enough that Jesus died and rose again for me.”

SACRIFICE OF PRAISE!

““Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name.” (Heb.13:15 NIV)We all like something tangible; something we can see or feel that gives us assurance. At times, in a walk with God, he gives us a sample of the reality of his presence. It is a taste of that which is to come. I remember the experience of joy I had shortly after I came to Christ. The joy was so intense, so real, I thought I would explode. What a wonder moment!The writer of Hebrews challenges us to offer continually the sacrifice of praise. A sacrifice is something that costs. It is something that is offered when there is no clear blessing; when there is no feeling to encourage the offering.

And we are to do it continually.Our life is to be filled with praise and thanksgiving to God, and we are to do it because of Jesus.Ah! Jesus! He is always God’s answer. We are complete in him! (Col.2:10 NIV) He is the one we are to trust. Why can we trust him? Clearly, as we look at the Bible and see Jesus, he is the revelation of God to us. We see steadfast love; faithfulness. We see great patience. We see power and deliverance. We see grace; God’s unmerited favor. We see a God of reality! These things challenge us to trust even when life seems to have gone crazy. B ecause we know there is someone in charge that is for us and he is working the best for our lives.Let’s choose the way of faith; the way of trust. “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name.” Faith in action! T his is a completely new way for many, but it is God’s way. Let’s start and let it be a new lifestyle for us.

Oklahoma State Uni-versity Counseling Ser-vices is bringing in four to five additional counsel-ors to help with demand after the crash during Saturday morning’s homecoming parade.

Lee Bird, vice president for Student Affairs, said the university scheduled the extra counselors from ComPsych, an employee assistance program, for the entire week. Bird said it depends on the demand for counseling whether the extra help will be available for more than

one week.The counseling ses-

sions will be available in Career Services on the third floor of the Student Union from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m for students, faculty, staff and community members.

The Reboot Center on the third floor of the Stu-dent Union will be avail-able, and therapy dogs from Pete’s Pet Posse will be on hand as well, Bird said.

To schedule an ap-pointment, faculty and students can call Bill Gentry at 405-744-6415.

People can also go online to guidanceresources.com, click “I am a first time user” and enter OKSTATEEAP as the web ID. Employees can contact ComPsych by phone at 855-850-2397. for 24/7 counseling.

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I wanted to cry.I felt the tears building

in my eyes. My breath became heavy. I rested my hands on my face.

Saturday, a driver report-edly under the influence shook the foundation of our university, our town, our community.

It was supposed to be a day of happiness, a conclu-sion to a week full of fun and festivity, watching the Cowboys destroy the Kan-sas Jayhawks to improve to 7-0.

But instead we watched the news. We checked Twitter for updates. We searched our minds and hearts for an answer we

might never get.One of Stillwater’s great-

est loves became meaning-less as bodies lay under tarps only a couple of blocks away.

As I waited for a football game that didn’t matter to start, a group of 59,486 gave me another reason to cry.

With a flag at half-staff to my right, it sang the national anthem as a pair of helicopters flew overhead. It roared as passionately as ever when the team took the field.

It bellowed Oklahoma State’s alma mater as if the sound of loyalty and truth could shroud the site of tragedy down the street, protecting it from further harm.

I wanted to cry because I had a reason for hope.

For the third time in 15 years, tragedy struck OSU. The four victims who lost their lives and the countless others who were injured Saturday were as much Cowboys as the 20-year-olds in orange jerseys on the field.

The game on the turf didn’t matter, but what it represented did.

Public address announcer Larry Reece said it best, with the same words he uses before every game at Boone Pickens Stadium, but with plenty more vigor.

“This is our home. This is our family. This is our team.”

There hasn’t been a time when that statement was truer.

The Cowboy fam-ily came together Satur-day. They hugged. They cheered. They laughed.

They were one.Saturday won’t be

remembered for the final score. It will be remembered for how OSU, Stillwater and Oklahoma united.

Saturday’s crowd did me a favor, and I’d like you to do one for me.

Call your mom. Call your grandpa. Call your best friend.

And tell them you love them.

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OPINION: Saturday’s game was about family, not football

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