The coming Olympic Games to be held in Atlanta remind me of an Olympic gold medalist from Georgia. He is Paul Anderson of Tekoa, Georgia. Paul is the only American to ever win a gold medal in the heavyweight division of Olympic weight lifting. He is a dedicated Christian who for many years operated orphanages allover the Southeast. He traveled widely, putting on weight lifting demonstrations and witnessing for Jesus Christ.

I recall some twenty years ago sitting on a wooden platform with ten other men and feeling Paul Anderson beneath us, using his broad shoulders to lift us, men and platform, about a foot off the ground.

Paul is about 5'10" and weighs over 300 pounds, and there is no fat on that frame. He is a sawed-off, double-wide Arnold Swartzenagger. One day Paul was in a drug store l…