A Runner’s Thoughts: “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” (St. Francis Of Assisi)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven” (Mathew 5: 20)
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)
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)
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)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.” (1 Corinthians 12:4-6)
A Runner’s Thoughts: "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things, charity." (Said by Many…)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love.” (From the Prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi) 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!
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)
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