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Aiming at heaven, not earth Chuck Tabor Contributing columnist As reported several years ago in USA Today, Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin know endurance better than most. For 111 days, they ran the equivalent of two marathons a day in order to cross the entire Sahara Desert on foot. They touched the waters at Senegal and then made their way through Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and Egypt to touch the waters of the Red Sea. Along the way, the trio faced blazing afternoons of over 100 degrees, jarring, freezing nights, sandstorms, tendonitis, violent sickness, and the usual aches, pai...

More than a white elephant gift Chuck Tabor Contributing columnist Ever been to a white elephant gift exchange? Every year when we lived in southern Ohio, one of the organizations to which we belonged would have its annual Christmas party. One of the segments of that party was the white elephant gift exchange. It was the highlight of the evening. You know the ritual — everyone contributes some worthless gift or a gift that they have been wanting to get rid of — that old shoe or tie that they received as a gift some years ago but never got rid of. As we each open our gifts, we have the op...