A Runner’s Thoughts: If we chose to be a spiritual person, we can learn three things about ourselves. We can learn how to keep moving forward through whatever life throws at us. We can learn who we truly are, our best self. We can learn that we are never alone and always love because we have God moving with us!
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A Runner’s Thoughts: Remember the living of life is a sacred act, sacred time. Sacred is a Latin word sacraficium, meaning to cut up, or sacrifice. If we want our life to be spiritual we need to sacrifice time, energy, and comfort. It requires that we face life head on, live wholly in the present, taking on joy and suffering, savoring each emotion, every experience while offering it all to God. (Adapted from Roger Joslin)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” (C.S. Lewis) This is true whether we are talking about life or the spiritual life…
A Runner’s Thoughts: As you begin your day, today or any day, take a moment to reflect on a sense of balance, a sense of energy, a sense of renewal that can result from your living of life today. Think of a moment when you felt God’s presence. Think of ways that you felt God presence. Now take that energy, that balance, that presence with you throughout the day!
A Runner’s Thoughts: To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. (Steve Prefontaine)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today” (St. Francis Of Assisi)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: "Life comes down to a simple choice: You're either busy living or busy dying." (From the Movie: The Shawshank Redemption what Andy Dufresne says to his fellow inmate Red)
A Runner’s Thoughts: As we live life today let us consider the unknown and known God that we worship and then ask ourselves, How can we make this day a time for rediscovering the grace of the God – in whom “we live and move and have our being?”
A Runner’s Thoughts: Let us remember in the midst of life when things get harder, when we get tired, when we are climbing a steep hill, when we don’t feel like continuing, when it just doesn’t seem worth it, that these are reminders to come home to our breath, to the awareness that God is with us! (Adapted from Roger Joslin)
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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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