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Giving Your All

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This past Monday at camp, Aaron Hanrick delivered a short message on giving your best for God. He started the message with instructions to make things right with our loved ones. He then proceeded to show this video clip from “Facing the Giants” The Death Crawl I wanted to take another step in this direction. Immediately after Aaron was finished with his great message, several illustrations and pop culture references came to mind. Staying with the sports theme, I immediately thought of my favorite runner of all-time: Steve “Pre” Prefontaine. Pre ran one way: hard. He ran as fast as he could, for as long as he could. Here are two quotations from him: “Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.” “The only good race pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.” His most pertinent quotation is this one, written on the poster: For the next reference, we have this classic song by the Foo Fighters: The Best of You Loo