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)
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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)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Let your love for one another be constant, for love covers a multitude of sins. Be mutually hospitable without complaining. As generous distributors of God’s Manifold grace, put your gifts at the service of one another, each in the measure you have received.” (1 Peter 4:8-9)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
(Eleanor Roosevelt) A Runner’s Thoughts: “Faith, like active prayer is a grace. For prayer, when activated by love through the power of the Spirit, renders true faith manifest – the faith that reveals the life of Jesus.” (St. Gregory of Sinai)
A Runner’s Thoughts: We need to always remember that there are different forms of prayer, of communication with God and that they are possible in everything we do. So, let us make our living of life this day to be a prayer – a prayer of thanksgiving, a prayer of petition or intercession, a prayer of praise, a prayer of struggle, or a prayer seeking help or perhaps just a prayer that says hello God how are you today?
A Runner’s Thoughts: St. Teresa of Calcutta saw Christ in the face of everyone she met; Is it possible to live life in a way that models her behavior? Perhaps, as we journey through life today, we might try placing a smile on our face and through it offer a blessing to everyone we meet!
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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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