A Runner’s Thoughts: “Enter into your prayer by faith, remain in it in hope and do not abandon it except for that charity which serves and endures.” (St. Jane Frances de Chantal)
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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: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.” (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)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.” (Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM)
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” (Lance Conrad)
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." (Barbara Kingsolver, "Homeland and Other Stories") “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” (Jessica Lange) A Runner’s Thoughts: “I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God, who loves us and who wants to save us.” (St. Oscar A. Romero)
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) This is true in whatever we are doing, this is true in the living of life, in living our faith…
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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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