Deciding to take up jogging, the man was astounded by the wide selection 
of jogging shoes available at the local sports shoe store.
While trying on a basic pair of jogging shoes, he noticed a minor feature and asked the clerk: “What is this little pocket thing on the shoe?”
And the clerk replied, “Oh, that’s to carry spare change so you can call your wife to come pick you up when you’ve jogged too far.” *
LOL!
I (Dawn) read about two runners who both needed a good dose of character.
“Marathoner Loses by a Mustache.” So read the headline of an Associated Press story. It appeared that Abbes Tehami of Algeria was an easy winner of the Brussels Marathon, until someone wondered where his mustache had gone!
Checking eyewitness accounts, it quickly became evident that the mustache belonged to Tehami’s coach, Bensalem Hamiani. Hamiani had run the first seven-and-a-half miles of the race for Tehami, and then dropped out of the pack. He disappeared into the woods to pass race number 62 on to his pupil.
“They looked about the same,” race organizers said. “Only one had a mustache.”
The article said it was expected that the two would never again be allowed to run in Belgium. *
Ya think?
I never was a runner. First, I run like a girlie girl. My sister did not inherit this girlie girl gene, and she could really fly when she ran. But I even look clumsy jogging. OK, I’ll be honest. I look like a duck when I walk.
But I admire people who run. I will cheer them on and watch them win medals. I know how much hard work it takes to prepare for a race.
I have gone to out to breakfast with my friend Jill and her husband after she’s completed a good run. When she meets us at the restaurant (not even panting), her face glows. Her body is svelte. She pays the price, and it’s worth the results.
The Bible uses the metaphor of running in Hebrews 12:1-3. Paul exhorts believers, “…run with patience the race that is set before us…..” Paul tells us to look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, so we won’t be “wearied” ~ so we won’t get discouraged and “faint” in our minds.
The key to our own race is to consider “Him that endured.” Jesus endured in His own life “race,” and as we focus on Him, we understand how we can be persistent and press on in ours.
Paul also used the running metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9:24: “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.”
In other words, in the spiritual realm, Continue reading
he tended to other chores.
was awarded 1,368 separate, distinct patents during his lifetime. ** Edison invented or improved the telegraph, phonograph, electric motor, light bulb, movie camera, X-ray, and so much more. The story goes that Edison failed more than 1,000 times when trying to create the light bulb. 
