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A Runner’s Thoughts: “To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.” (Bill Rodgers) I know Bill Rodgers is talking about running, racing, but I also think you can apply what he says to life and to faith. Living life and being a person of faith is a lifetime of preparation, work and investment. We need to be about living life and being faithful to our relationship with God each and every day!
A Runner’s Thoughts: A smile as we live life today can help us remain focused, it often causes others to smile back which can be uplifting and perhaps most importantly it can remind us that that we have been graced by God. So, as we live life today let’s put a smile on our face!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” (Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way.” (Gregg Popovich)
A Runner’s Thoughts: Samuel Shoemaker once said, “Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.”
A Runner’s Thoughts: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be who you are and be that well.” (St. Francis de Sales)
A Runner’s Thoughts: Let us live life today with a spirit of gratefulness. Before we set out on our journey through this day let us declare our intention to look upon all we encounter with the freshness of the unexpected. Let us live life today with a sense of miraculous expectation and allow a feeling of gratitude for the extraordinary and the ordinary to flow through our being. (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) Perhaps this thought reflects how Jesus is asking us to live in today’s Gospel? – Have a blessed day!
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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
November 2024
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