​A Runner’s Thoughts:  Samuel Shoemaker once said, “Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.” 

​A Runner’s Thoughts: A smile as we live life today can help us remain focused, it often causes others to smile back which can be uplifting and perhaps most importantly it can remind us that that we have been graced by God. So, as we live life today let’s put a smile on our face!

A Runner’s Thoughts: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” (Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way.” (Gregg Popovich)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today” (St. Francis Of Assisi)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.” (Meister Eckhart)
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​A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be who you are and be that well.” (St. Francis de Sales)

A Runner’s Thoughts: Let us live life today with a spirit of gratefulness. Before we set out on our journey through this day let us declare our intention to look upon all we encounter with the freshness of the unexpected. Let us live life today 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)
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​A Runner’s Thoughts: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Can’t this thought be found in how Jesus is asking us to live? – Have a blessed day!

A Runner’s Thoughts: “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” (Henri J.M. Nouwen)
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