Are you not tired of running yet?
" It all clears up when you stop running."
For my older brother's birthday this year, we decided to throw him a surprise birthday dinner. After the celebration, on our way home he asked :" yo, why do people run man?" I laughed. Not at what he said but at how he had said it. Then he continued by saying: " What pleasure do you get from running? look at this post, 700 thousand people went LIVE just to watch people run..what sense does this make? when you run you're tired, you're sweaty and then you go back home more tired than when you arrived.. where is the fun in that? anyways...maybe it's just me...my brain is just unable to grasp the importance that people put in it." and then he went back to doing what he was initially doing. as I sat there quietly thinking I begin to look at his question in a different perspective.
Now this is not going to be your average expected answer telling you that people run because they want to be healthy and because they want to win and because they make money off of it. yes, it's true. there are positive aspects in running; But my intentions were really to look at this question on a Christ like perspective. Why do we run ?
In the bible, there is the well known story of Adam and Eve who RAN and hid from God after eating the apple from the forbidden tree. Another story is about the prodigal son who asked for his fair share of inheritance and RAN away from home to spend his money on frugal things. Then, there's the story of Cain and Abel. Who after committing murder, he RAN and hid because he had just realized what he had done. These are just examples that jumped to me the second I thought of this subject.
I realized that most of my adult life, wait ... nah, scratch that ! ALL my life, I've spent it running. Running from : life. God. Responsibility. Home. Work. My thoughts. My reality. RELATIONSHIPS etc ... and this is just the few examples I can give. Can you imagine consistently running away from yourself ?!? how tiring! whew ...I digress!
This month of November really put things into perspective for me because I realized that I spent most of my time running. I did not take time to think about things, reflect on my life or learn something new. I was continuously on the go. I wasn't vigilant to what was around me and it turned me selfish. I stopped considering feelings and life begin to teach me lessons the hard way by creating chaos around me. My question is, what is it that you are running from? what do you think it will take for you to stop running and finally deal with those issues at hand, or take care of those bottled emotion you always put aside because it's not important enough to deal with it just yet, or realize that your relationship is falling apart because you're chasing the wrong thing for self satisfaction and not to commit, or notice that you're not really taking in the word of God as you should, that you're just brazing through your own understanding of it because you don't want to deal with the real lesson it is trying to teach you?
Dear God,
I run because I believe that the faster I go, the faster I can get to my destination
and you remind me every time that the faster I go, the easier I make mistakes.
Thank you for opening my eyes this month,
by teaching me to stop moving too fast.
To take my time in the things you've called me to do.
As this month ends and another begins, continue to teach me patience and vigilance.
Amen.
For my older brother's birthday this year, we decided to throw him a surprise birthday dinner. After the celebration, on our way home he asked :" yo, why do people run man?" I laughed. Not at what he said but at how he had said it. Then he continued by saying: " What pleasure do you get from running? look at this post, 700 thousand people went LIVE just to watch people run..what sense does this make? when you run you're tired, you're sweaty and then you go back home more tired than when you arrived.. where is the fun in that? anyways...maybe it's just me...my brain is just unable to grasp the importance that people put in it." and then he went back to doing what he was initially doing. as I sat there quietly thinking I begin to look at his question in a different perspective.
Now this is not going to be your average expected answer telling you that people run because they want to be healthy and because they want to win and because they make money off of it. yes, it's true. there are positive aspects in running; But my intentions were really to look at this question on a Christ like perspective. Why do we run ?
In the bible, there is the well known story of Adam and Eve who RAN and hid from God after eating the apple from the forbidden tree. Another story is about the prodigal son who asked for his fair share of inheritance and RAN away from home to spend his money on frugal things. Then, there's the story of Cain and Abel. Who after committing murder, he RAN and hid because he had just realized what he had done. These are just examples that jumped to me the second I thought of this subject.
I realized that most of my adult life, wait ... nah, scratch that ! ALL my life, I've spent it running. Running from : life. God. Responsibility. Home. Work. My thoughts. My reality. RELATIONSHIPS etc ... and this is just the few examples I can give. Can you imagine consistently running away from yourself ?!? how tiring! whew ...I digress!
This month of November really put things into perspective for me because I realized that I spent most of my time running. I did not take time to think about things, reflect on my life or learn something new. I was continuously on the go. I wasn't vigilant to what was around me and it turned me selfish. I stopped considering feelings and life begin to teach me lessons the hard way by creating chaos around me. My question is, what is it that you are running from? what do you think it will take for you to stop running and finally deal with those issues at hand, or take care of those bottled emotion you always put aside because it's not important enough to deal with it just yet, or realize that your relationship is falling apart because you're chasing the wrong thing for self satisfaction and not to commit, or notice that you're not really taking in the word of God as you should, that you're just brazing through your own understanding of it because you don't want to deal with the real lesson it is trying to teach you?
Dear God,
I run because I believe that the faster I go, the faster I can get to my destination
and you remind me every time that the faster I go, the easier I make mistakes.
Thank you for opening my eyes this month,
by teaching me to stop moving too fast.
To take my time in the things you've called me to do.
As this month ends and another begins, continue to teach me patience and vigilance.
Amen.
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