Lori Evans

Trying to live a righteous life through God's mercy and grace.

[Eddie Radosevich @Eddie_Rado]

Wemby causes a generational sports hate in my brain. All-time scumbag.

[Lori Evans @soonerchk]

@sadgirlhannah99 The Thunder was everyone's darling this time last year. This time next year, he will be hated.

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#thunderup

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@ScooterMagruder Baker Mayfield celebrated at his parent's home in Texas.

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@KREFsports @TotallyTickets Kendall Wells!

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
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[Lori Evans @soonerchk]

@KREFsports

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Please don’t let the hypocrisies of those who claim Christ keep you from Christ. Numbers 23:19 says God is not a human that he should lie or a son of man that he should change his mind. He is not us. We must know Jesus firsthand so we recognize who he is and who he’s not.

[YouVersion Bible App @YouVersion]

Luke 19:38

[Lori Evans @soonerchk]

@ThisIsRobThomas I was there!!

[Billy Sims @RealBillySims]

I’m giving away 3 autographed 8x10" photos from my Sooner days!

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Winner will be announced Monday

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Alex Pretti was a Minneapolis ICU nurse who spent his days caring for and saving others. Today, he was shot and killed by a Border Patrol Agent. Alex’s life was extinguished by state violence. We must tell the truth about what is happening.

My father warned us, “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.”

What we are witnessing now (masked raids, people taken without due process, vigilante, Gestapo, and slave patrol-like tactics normalized under the color of law) is a moral crisis.

Nonviolence demands more than outrage; it demands action.

Congress must dismantle ICE; enact just, humane immigration policies; and ensure implementation of the policies by people who honor the humanity of Black and Brown immigrants, respect those raising their voices in support of immigrants, and seek the safety of community.

The blood of those who are being kidnapped and unjustly killed by agents with impunity is not only on the hands of those who pull the trigger, but on every lawmaker and every court that has the power to intervene and chooses silence.

Creating the Beloved Community requires truth, accountability, and the courage to act before more lives are lost.

#Minneapolis #CallToAction #ShowUpCongress #BelovedCommunity

[Global Methodist Church @GlobalMChurch]

Today we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

As followers of Christ, we are invited to cultivate a global perspective and place our loyalty in God’s reconciling work. Let us pray to have hearts opened by God, overflowing with love for the whole world.

[Lori Evans @soonerchk]

@OURadioCrew I am a season ticket holder since 1998 and last night was incredibly special, but @TRowOU this by far was my favorite part of the night!

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@StalkingKyle He is hell bent on making America a communist state.

[Maxx Crosby @CrosbyMaxx]

It’s Gameday Raider Nation! I’m giving away a signed jersey to someone that RTs this post! #ProBowlVote Maxx Crosby

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[Billy Sims @RealBillySims]

12 Days of Billy Day 9 - Autographed OU football

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A winner will be announced the following day on Facebook, Instagram and X.

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@BR_CFB

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

OKC IS HEADED TO THE NBA CUP SEMIS IN VEGAS ⚡️

They just matched the 2015-16 Warriors for the best 25-game start in NBA history 🔥

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@sadgirlhannah99