A Runner’s Thoughts: Running, walk or moving through life another way meditation is not about the peak experience, that rare moment of personal triumph occasionally achieved by athletes. It is about a consistent relationship with God through the gift of running, walking or moving through life another way. The meditative runner, walker or mover simply moves, swiftly or ploddingly, towards union, towards friendship with God. The meditative, walker or mover runner achieves her/his goal every day. There are no good runs, walks or movements through life another way. There are no bad runs, walks or movements through life another way . There is always victory – a steady movement toward a relationship with God.
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A Runner’s 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!
A Runner’s Thoughts: As you run, walk or move through life another way today remember with each plant of your foot or movement of a wheel you feel firmness under you. Feel that firmness as the presence of God. Trust in that firmness. Know that God is with you!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” (Orison Swett Marden)
A Runner’s Thoughts: If we run as a spiritual runner let us remember that it is being a runner that matters, it is not how fast or how far we go. The joy, the gift is in running, in the journey and not always in the destination. We have the best chance of encountering our friend God, in the midst of our run when we remain focused in the present and don’t think too far ahead! This is true whether we run, walk or move through life another way… (I adapted this from a quote by John Bingham, the author of No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running.)
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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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