A Runner’s Thoughts: Let’s run, walk or move through life another way today in a spirit of gratefulness. Before we begin our run, walk or movement through life another way let’s declare our intention to look upon all we encounter with the freshness of the unexpected. Let us run with a sense of miraculous expectation and allow a feeling of gratitude for the extraordinary and the ordinary to flow through our being. As we run, walk or move another way through life let us be thankful to God for life! (Adapted from Roger Joslin – Running the Spiritual Path)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day's canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations. When you're angry, a run can be a sharp slap in the face. When happy, a run is your song. And when your running progresses enough to become the chrysalis through which your life is viewed, motivation is almost beside the point. Rather, it's running that motivates you for everything else the day holds.” (From the Runner’s World Daily Kick in the Butt by Dagny Scott Barrios)
This is also true for those of us who walk or move through life another way and as a friend and brother in the Passion often says – “So too in the spiritual life!” A Runner’s Thoughts: As prayerful runner we always seem to find it inadequate to sit and wait for the Spirit to appear. As prayerful runners, we always want to run towards God but if we are prayerful runner’s what we always find is that God is running toward us at twice the speed! (Adapted from Roger Joslin – Running the Spiritual Path) So too when we walk or move through life another way…
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)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Not just exercise, but a way to get in touch with and reclaim myself in an often fragmenting world, running also serves as a powerful antidote to clinical depression, a metaphor for the creative process, and, in its most profound moments, a spiritual practice.” (Alison Townsend) The same can be said for walking and moving through life another way…
A Runner’s Thoughts: As we run, walk or move through life another way today let us listen to ourselves, let us run, walk or move through life another way with hope and joy, let us make each step, each movement an offering of our heart in which the imprint of God in our life is made present.
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Not just exercise, but a way to get in touch with and reclaim myself in an often-fragmenting world, running also serves as a powerful antidote to clinical depression, a metaphor for the creative process, and, in its most profound moments, a spiritual practice.” (Alison Townsend) Same can be true for walking or moving through life another way…
A Runner’s Thoughts: Let us run, walk or move through life another way today with a spirit of gratefulness. Before we begin our run, walk or movement through life another way let us declare our intention to look upon all we encounter with the freshness of the unexpected. Let us run, walk or move 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: Today accept your run, walk or movement through life another way for what it is, remembering that this is a spiritual practice that, like any discipline, requires persistence through experiences of success and seeming failure. (Adapted from Roger Joslin – Running the Spiritual Path)
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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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