What will your eulogy say? I once read a eulogy that someone sent me. It was really nice, but it didn’t mention God or Jesus once by name. There were two references to Christ, that the man had accepted Christ and was in the presence of Christ, but no references to faith, believe, or righteousness. The eulogy did mention the fact that this was a great man at least five times. Now is there something backwards here? I think so….
The 1904 Olympic marathon may have been the strangest ever. Of the 32 runners, only five were experienced marathoners; one showed up at the starting line barefoot, and a Cuban runner was attired in a white, long-sleeved shirt, long, dark pants, a beret and a pair of street shoes. One fellow Olympian took pity, found a pair of scissors and cut his trousers at the knee. On August 30 they fired the starting pistol, and the men were off. Heat…
Dear famous person, If we want to be seen with you, we’ll turn our backs on you. Please don’t be offended. It’s just that your fame isn’t enough for us anymore. We need to attach ourselves to your fame, so that we can post the resulting picture to Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. That way, we achieve our own sort of mini-fame. Which could be the maximal fame we ever attain.