So I have been reading 'Born to Run' again. I am picking up some interesting details I didn't see last time. I only began reading this past week and I am enjoying it all over again. Some things I would like to share.......
" It reminded me of a proverb attributed to Roger Bannister,....... 'Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up,' Bannister said'. 'It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle- when the sun comes up you'd better be running." pg.13 Just before this the author questions why we never see a wolf icing its knee, and after, he comments as to why we are the only mammal on the planet unable to rely on our legs.
Later on in the book (I'm not there yet this time through) the author Christopher McDougall goes on to find research showing that our bodies have the same characteristics of those animals who run. I find it interesting that God really must have a plan. He has equipped us with every thing we need. Our feet have been designed to do something awesome, carry us along our road, path, journey. He not only made us He made us very good.
"And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He approved it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day." Genesis 2:31 (amplified version)
Not once does it say that He mucked up on our feet! Of course I understand that we have been given the intelligence to fix things and to be creative and we should use our brains to build and live. We were made to enjoy our lives as well, to be filled to overflowing with gladness.
"I have told you these things, that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy and gladness may be of full measure and complete and overflowing." John 15:11
This is what the running high is all about, I think. And it is not limited to running. I had an experience a couple of weeks ago that left me 'high' for almost two days, it was a great work out with some interesting people. It is the state of mind, or maybe the state of spirit you are in I think that determines this. For those out there in tuned with your body, mind, and spirit.... you get it. Even if you are only working on being in tuned with any of these areas, ...... you get it, or you wouldn't be working on it. There is something more to this running than just the run, isn't it great how beautifully and wonderfully made we are!
I'm not saying that running is for everyone, but the joy and gladness is for everyone in the things we were each designed to do. Each of us were designed to live with a purpose, and when that purpose is found so is the joy 'of full measure and complete and overflowing'.
I hope we all get to find this in our lives, the point where we get it. The point where it all becomes a 'runners high'. I wish you Joy.
Nicole
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