Day 32 – 4 Miles with no pain!
April 24, 2010
I decided that today was the day to push a little harder and run 4 miles and I did it!. I tried to keep my back straight and my feet light and to just be present to the moment. It helped that it was a glorious day! The sky was so blue and the trees so green that I could almost taste the color – it made me think of the scriptures – “Taste and see that the Lord is good “- and – “the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows forth God’s handiwork. ” Yes they do! Such beauty! Such gift! As long as I was present to this moment I did well. But my “monkey mind” kept trying to remind me how far I still had to go and how much my lungs were starting to ache, and how I could not do this. But I kept pulling my mind back to the present -” in this moment I am in this incredible body, in this incredible universe and loved by the God who created me. ” It doesn’t get much better than that. It was a battle for my mind and my constant planning for the next thing rather than being present to God and to life in this moment. I wonder if we were more present if we would be able to see God present in the faces of my new friends and all of the poor in the earth? I wonder how we might be changed? The Apostle Paul, in one of his letters to the Corinthian church that was divided and having lots of squabbles, said this:
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”
You see I believe that some of those mirrors that shine forth the glory of the Lord are the faces of the poor. I also believe that when we see Jesus in their faces, the Spirit of God will set us free and we will be transformed into the image of God ourselves. May that day come sooner rather than later – And so I pray: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth even as it is in heaven.” Run with me to bring into manifestation in the earth, the kingdom of God for my new friends in El Salvador.
