A Runner’s Thoughts: “Being a runner means you are now "free" to win and lose and live life to its fullest.” (Bill Rodgers) This also true for those who walk or move through life another way…
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.” (Dick Beardsley) So to in the spiritual life…
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.” (Nelson Mandela) In our movement through life whether it be running, walking or moving through life in another way can we learn diligence and discipline...
A Runner’s Thoughts: “An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion.” (Newton's First Law of Motion) The living of life needs a balance between motion and rest, between sound and silence, between company and solitude, but we always need the friendship of God!
A Runner’s Thoughts: The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals, they are the struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it's at. (Jesse Owens) So too in the spiritual life…
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There are no standards and no possible victories except the joy you are living while dancing your run. You are not running for some future reward-the real reward is now!” (Fred Rohe, The Zen of Running) And you are not running, walking or moving through life another way for some experience of God in the future when you run, walk or move through life another way with God now! So, enjoy the company!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” (John Bingham) The miracle is also whether we run, walk or move through life another way trusting in the presence of God, then finding, embracing and acknowledging that presence as we move through life!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Being a runner, [a walker or someone who moves through life another way], means you are now "free" to win and lose and live life to its fullest.” (Bill Rodgers)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at something–and much more constructive.” (Hortense Odlum)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.” (Dean Karnazes) The same is true with walking or moving through life another way and it carries over into the spiritual life too…
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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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