A Runner’s Thoughts: “Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.” (Lynn Jennings) So to in the spiritual life…Faith is our spiritual muscle that needs strengthened just like our mental and physical muscles.
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” (Kathrine Switzer) If you are losing faith in yourself go to the celebration of the Eucharist and look around at the community of faith that is struggling with you!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Shift from thinking to feeling–feel yourself accomplishing your goal. Take that feeling out of your head and put it into your heart. Embrace it as the reality.” (Erin Taylor) So to in the spiritual life – Don’t just think God, feel God today. Put God in your heart!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Runners don't quit. We fade; we "hit the wall"; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.” (Amby Burfoot) So too if we walk or move through life another way… and if we move through life in a spiritual faith filled way.
A Runner's Thoughts: “Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer.” (St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans 12:12)
A Runner's Thoughts: First, let me offer congrats to all who ran the New York Marathon yesterday! – My inspiration for today comes from the Letter of St. James – Friends, what good is it to profess faith without practicing it? Such faith has no power to save one has it? If a sister or brother has nothing to wear and no food for the day, and you say to them, “Good-bye and good luck! Keep warm and well fed,” but do not meet their bodily needs, what good is that? So it is with faith that does nothing in practice. It is thoroughly lifeless. (James 2: 13-17)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” (Arthur Ashe)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” (Fr. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, SJ)
A Runner’s Thoughts: Some words of inspiration and faith are - “You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.” (Steve Prefontaine) And sometime in the journey of faith you wonder why you keep moving forward, why you believe and there are thousands of doctrines, dogma, codes of cannon law, commandments, precepts of the Church that gives you reasons to believe but I always come back to where it started. My faith comes down to the Cross the sign of God’s great love for me!
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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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