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A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” (Meister Eckhart)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” (Dean Karnazes)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.” (Legendary running coach Hal Higdon) So to in the spiritual life – the pearl of great price!
A Runner’s Thoughts: As prayerful people let us not live today with a sense of expectation that something significant will happen spiritually. Let us live only asking that our day be in the presence of God and that we will live with a heightened awareness of God’s presence. If we live life in this way occasionally insights will come our way and we might feel a special closeness to God, but usually we will simply know that we are not living life alone and we will carry with us the sense of a shared journey long after we our day is done! (Adapted from Running the Spiritual Path by Roger Joslin)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.” (Wilma Rudolph) and “Each day, it is good to stop halfway through the day for about five minutes, look around, and enjoy the surroundings. It can remind us of why we are alive and why we need to love it so much.” (Adapted from a reflection by Anita Ortiz)
A Runner’s Thoughts: As prayerful people let us not live today with a sense of expectation that something significant will happen spiritually. Let us live only asking that our day be in the presence of God and that we will live with a heightened awareness of God’s presence. If we live life in this way occasionally insights will come our way and we might feel a special closeness to God, but usually we will simply know that we are not living life alone and we will carry with us the sense of a shared journey long after we our day is done! (Adapted from Running the Spiritual Path by Roger Joslin)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: Your love must be sincere. Detest what is evil, cling to what is good. Love one another with the affection of brothers and sisters. Anticipate each other in showing respect...Rejoice in hope, be patient under trial, persevere in prayer. (Romans 12:9-12)
A Runner’s Thoughts: Remember living life is always an opportunity to search for God amid the commonplace, humdrum and ordinary activities that most often occupy our life. That is ultimately the point of each day of our life – we are trying to find a way to mix the mundane with the mystical, to blend the sacred with the profane, to find heaven on earth. Living each day of our life is a sacred time when we have the opportunity to encounter the gift of God! (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
November 2024
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