A Runner’s Thoughts: “If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” (Michael Jordan) So to in the spiritual life…
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A Runner’s Thoughts: Remember running can be humbling and elevating at the same time. When we run and see the beauty of creation we realize how insignificant and tiny we really are when it comes to all of creation, yet God did create each of us as “very good.” Each of us carries the image and likeness of God within us. So as we run let us run with God helping to create a better world and a better person!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.” (Amby Burfoot)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” (Robert Frost)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There is a lesson to be learned from running in various emotional states, just as there are lessons to learn from running in a wide range of environmental settings. Don’t shy away from running in an unaccustomed state of mind or an unusual situation. Opportunity for enlightenment often waits in the unfamiliar.” (Roger Joslin) And another thought, “Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.” (Julie Isphording)
A Runner’s Thoughts: As you run today remember with each plant of your foot you feel firmness under you. Feel that firmness as the presence of God. Trust in that firmness. Know that God is running with you!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Our toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. We don't so much outrun our opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside our head.” (Adapted from the words of Joe Henderson)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Toughness is coming face to face with your limitations, whatever they may be, and having the courage to acknowledge them and still keep going.” (Marathoner Esther Atkins)
A Runner’s Thoughts: Running can clear cobwebs from our minds and focus our thinking. Running can give us time and space to sort out the things that are bothering us, or challenging us. At time running allows us to detach and think of nothing at all. But perhaps most importantly running offers us an opportunity to connect with God through our senses. Running gifts, us with an opportunity to taste, touch, smell, hear and see God in our life!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” (Michelangelo)
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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
May 2023
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