Today I did not go to the Chapel in the Benson. I heard that Jimmy Allen spoke and (I think this comes from Tom Sawyer) made it seem as if the number of 'the elect' or 'the predestined' was growing smaller and smaller.

Anyway, I went to the Foreign Language Department chapel. I had heard there was a great speaker. Just kidding. I was the speaker. It was suggested to me that I talk about II Timothy 4:7: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. Therefore, instead of telling any of my running stories involving things like Vatican guards, running into walls, passing people at mile 22, etc, I spoke about one of my favorite people in the Bible: Elijah. He was a great runner. Outran a chariot. Ran for his life and escaped an entire country and ran through a second (Israel and Judah). Then went all the way to the bottom of the Sinai Peninsula. At one point he asked to die. It seemed as if he lost his faith. But at Mt. Horeb, God restored him to his ministry.

The spring semester is wrapping up. It is dead week right now. We are finishing this course. I am in the process of ending several races/courses. I am finishing up this semester and next fall I will be going to the University of Kentucky in Lexington to be a student again in a doctoral program. Also, I am going to finish up the race of being single. I am getting married in less than four weeks. Hopefully I will fight the good fight, finish the course, and keep the faith.

Hopefully you can do that as well. And that you are still among the now infinitesimally small elect.