Photo: New Wineskins
A friend writes the blog New Wineskins under the name of Ultraguy (always linked on the sidebar here). Take some time to read Ultraguy's piece, Running on God's Time. It's his post-Boston Marathon reflection on the race.
You don't need to be a marathoner to appreciate the spiritual wisdom in these words:
What happened yesterday can’t fade because the serenity is unrelated to the race or to the performance or even to how I felt running it. Instead, the sense was in the race itself… and in me. My race became an opportunity for calm and joy because, for only the second time ever, I released the event to God to do with as He saw fit. The race became a kind of offering, a prayer, a release of self.I hope you'll make the time to take a look...
–ConcordPastor
Thanks Austin!! God bless you.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many other marathoners turn it over to God...Thy Will Be Done, Not Mine. Heartening post.
ReplyDeleteGod's time...kairos, is it not??
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing time to feel pulled out of earthly time--in the middle of a race. There's a lesson in that, but you knew that, didn't you?:>)