A Runner’s Thoughts: As we live life today let us consider the unknown and known God that we worship and then ask ourselves, how can we make this day a time for rediscovering the grace of the God – in whom “we live and move and have our being?”
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A Runner’s Thoughts: Let us remember in the midst of life when things get harder, when we get tired, when we are climbing a steep hill, when we don’t feel like continuing, when it just doesn’t seem worth it, that these are reminders to come home to our breath, to the awareness that God is with us! (Adapted from Roger Joslin)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.” (Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” (William Shakespeare)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.” (Pope Francis)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.” (Mahatma Gandhi) A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” (Oscar Wilde)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” (St. Francis Of Assisi)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be not a whisper that is lost in the wind; be a voice that is heard above the storms of life.” (Maimonides)
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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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