A Runner's Thoughts: As we run, walk or move through life another way during this Holy Week let us remember that each run or walk or movement can help us embark on a pilgrimage of the ordinary which often leads us to the extraordinary and sacred!
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “...the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.” (Without Limits) And in the spiritual life…the real purpose of Palm Sunday and all of Holy Week is to show the limitlessness of God’s Love!
A Runner’s Thoughts: Breath is usually expressed in Greek as pneuma, which can also mean air, wind, or spirit. In Hebrew ruah is translated as breath, but it can also mean creative energy or life-giving force. As we run, walk or move through life another way, let us have an awareness of our breath as spirit, as our capacity to bring God into our being as we take in oxygen into our lungs. If we see each breath this way we will begin to allow our runs, our walks, our movements through life, to become prayer! (Adapted from Running the Spiritual Path by Roger Joslin)
A Runner’s Thoughts: If we become meditative runners or walkers, prayerful runners or walker, then we will be fortunate enough to find ways that refresh our bodies, our minds and renew our spirits, thus we might say we will be born again with every new run!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” (Dean Karnazes)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.” (Vince Lombardi) Thus when we run, walk or move through life in a spiritual way, we are brought into the process of God-ing. Meaning as we run, walk or move through life another way, we are not moving toward God but interacting with God along the way. Our run or walk becomes a direct physical, emotional and spiritual way of becoming who we are, our authentic selves. In the process, we open up vast and unlimited opportunities to connect with God in new, life giving ways!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” (Lou Holtz) Running can become a tool that helps us deal with the difficulties that we face. It can be a time to release the negative energies in our life. It can be a time to let go and let God!
A Runner’s Thoughts: As we run, walk or move through life another way today let us receive God’s blessings through every breath we take. We breathe in the presence of God and we exhale all our struggles, all our faults, all our failings. With each breath let us allow God to create something new within us as we run. Enlivening us with the breath of life, the breath of grace, the breath of God!
A Runner’s Thoughts: As you run, walk or move through life another way imagine God is at your side, running, walking, moving along with you. Imagine how God would look with kindness into the faces of all whom the two of you meet. Imagine how God would fine good in everyone you encounter. Look for good in everyone. Look for good in yourself! (Adapted from Roger Joslin – Running the Spiritual Path)
A Runners' Thoughts: Remember if we have the desire to run, walk or move through life another way with God, then the specifics of the techniques used do not matter very much just keep hold of the desire and God will be with you!
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Fr. Paul R. Fagan, C.P. "Preacher on the Run!"A thought from time to time about Running and Life! Archives
April 2024
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