If you're a regular listener too listening in, you know that I sometimes close my conversations

here with a question that sounds sort of like this.

How do you want to be remembered?

Or what legacy do you want to leave behind?

Robert Walgamesh has thought deeply about these questions, and he's come to the conclusion

that finishing well, running faithfully the last lap of life, the lap that he calls the

gun lap, is an important part of the answer to those questions.

He got the idea from a fellow graduate of Taylor University.

I was a senior in college, he was a sophomore, and during my senior year, especially toward

the end, we'd come in like really late from being out, whatever seniors in college do.

And here's this lone figure running on abandoned country roads in North Central Indiana, I'm

thinking, who in the world?

What is that?

Well, he was getting up in the morning, I was finishing my day, and there was a kid named

Ralph foot, he was a sophomore Taylor, and he was running from a small farm town in Indiana,

and he figured he could run, and he ran, and he ran, and he ran, and so it came time

for the conference track meet.

I had finished my finals and was getting ready to graduate from Taylor, and George Glass,

who was the track coach, said, hey, we're hosting the conference meet, we need some volunteers,

I said, man, count me in.

So I volunteered, you know, rake the pits for the high jump and the pole vault and so

forth.

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