A Runner’s Thoughts: As we move through life today let’s imagine that God is at our side, moving along with us. Imagine how God would look with kindness into the faces of all whom the two of us would meet though out our day. Imagine how God would find good in everyone we encounter. Thus, as we journey through our day, let us look for good in everyone. Let us look for good within ourselves. (Adapted from Roger Joslin – Running the Spiritual Path)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Can’t these thoughts be found in how Jesus is asking us to live? – Have a blessed day!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: Last year on Trinity Sunday, Fr. Paul Ruttle, C.P. opened his homily on televised mass, The Sunday Mass, by asking the congregation what 1+1+1 equals. One of the young high school students in the congregation yelled out 3! Fr. Paul said on any other day, at any other time you would be right but today you are wrong, because today 1+1+1=1. The person of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit equal one God.
You might say we are not using, new math or old math, we are using Church math! Happy Trinity Sunday! A Runner’s Thoughts: “And here the first word that I wish to say to you: joy! Do not be men and women of sadness: a Christian can never be sad! Never give way to discouragement! Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a Person: Jesus, in our midst.” (Pope Francis)
A Runner’s Thoughts: If we approach the living of life each day as a pilgrimage and believe that the realizations of our goals of this lifelong pilgrimage happen with each step taken, then we are truly wandering down a sacred path. Our days become holy. If we live with a sense of the sacred in our heart, we transform the earth beneath our feet into holy ground. If we live with the intention to find God, then we become pilgrims. If we have the pilgrim’s sacred intention then we change a simple, humble day in life into “God’s day!” (Adapted from Roger Joslin – Running the Spiritual Path)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great.” (Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan in “A League of Their Own”)
A Runner’s Thoughts:
“If someone could find a way to bottle motivation, he [or she] would make a fortune.” (Hal Higdon) and in honor of Global Running Day – “I’m more of an alone kind of runner. When you’re by yourself, it’s you, the trail, and your thoughts.” (Reggie Miller) I agree with Reggie on this one! A Runner’s Thoughts: “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “A [person] can fail many times, but he [or she] isn’t a failure until he [or she] begins to blame somebody else.” (John Burroughs)
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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
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