Feet Made for the Heights
On September 10, 1960, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia lined up for the Olympic marathon in Rome with no shoes on his feet. The other runners...
This is a contemporary on humility and natural gifts, drawing on Psalm 18:33.
On September 10, 1960, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia lined up for the Olympic marathon in Rome with no shoes on his feet. The other runners wore the finest racing flats money could buy. Bikila had trained in the highlands above Addis Ababa, running at nearly eight thousand feet of elevation on rocky trails and dirt roads, his bare soles toughened by thousands of miles over unforgiving ground.…
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