In the New Testament Paul, compares life to a race several times. Maybe Paul was a runner. There is an analogy there for all of us. Life is a marathon. We must train and be prepared. We must endure.
My Son-in-law, Paul is traveling with a runner who is running from San Francisco to New York City to bring awareness to childhood obesity. The run started out with two runners, but one dropped out for health reasons. Paul is the doctor who attends to the injuries and other heath issues along the way.
My daughter Jennifer, ran a portion of the race with them in Colorado. She is pictured on the left, above.
From the Greeley Tribune:
The sound of tennis shoes hitting blacktop can, to a runner, sound like a metronome - left, right, tick, tock, a rhythm of efficiency meant to melt away those miles.
But to Greeley native Marshall Ulrich, in the first two weeks of Running America '08, it sounded like a death march.
He and Charlie Engle were running across America, and they were trying to do it in record time, in 45 days, at nearly 70 miles a day. It sounds brutal, and it was. Ulrich, 57, knew pain. He had climbed Everest. He had done adventure races that lasted almost two weeks. He was a three-time champion of the Badwater, an ultramarathon across Death Valley, maybe the hottest place on earth, that ended on the summit of Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48.
Read more here.....
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
Run hard, friends!
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