KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
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KIM PEEK WAS running the 50-yard dash in the Olympics - specifically, the 1968 Special Olympics...
You see, Kim was severely handicapped and brain-damaged. Kim was racing against two other handicapped athletes; both of them suffered with cerebral palsy and both were in wheelchairs. As the gun sounded, Kim quickly out-distanced his fellow competitors. Nearly twenty yards ahead and only about ten yards from the finish line, he turned around to see how the other two were progressing. The girl had inadvertently turned her wheelchair around and was unable to move at all. The boy was slowly pushing his wheelchair backward with his feet. Kim stopped, returned to the little girl and pushed her across the finish line.
The boy placed first. The girl placed second. Kim came in last.
THOUGHT: Did Kim really come in last? No. The crowd watching the event gave him a standing ovation.
KneEmail: "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all" ( Mark 9:35 NIV).