Allow me to share with you a life-shaping story I discovered recently. I found the story while reading a book by Max Lucado entitled In the Eye of the Storm.

"Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled, the sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail's pace of the other. Words were exchanged. Challenges were made. And the race began. Competition became vicious as the two boats roared through the Deep South.