LOVE Captures

Award winning picture of "Woman & Child" in refugee camp. Afghanistan. 

I am captured... captured of something flowing well below the surface of me... yet it is me.  An energy existing in the expression of life which is most beautiful and most ardent. Energy which takes great quietness and courage to feel, but can also been seen.  Such ENERGY is often the most desirable and primitive... it is the most gripping and dividing.  We all weep for it... we all die for it.  It is the appeal of the ENERGY OF LOVE.  THIS ENERGY IS flowing below the surface of all our tattering... singing songs as the Sirens and taking no prisoners. 

Here we stop... as interested holistic distance runners... and wonder if this "energy of love" can be anything to us?  Can our expression of life and distance running be bettered by understanding the greatest expression of our humanity?  YES!!!  For there is nothing better than efforts after things because of a love for them.  And certainly there should be MANY things we make similar efforts after with respects to love and passion!

It seems certain we cannot turn off the energy of love, for LOVE grips like heavy fog rolling in off the northern sea.  LOVE captures like the deepest prison and convinces every soul that they desires to be there.  LOVE gives sacred thoughts and asks for no return.  LOVE stands alone and exists independently.   

To Be Alert!

They who wish to Master distance running will soon realize that the strength they need is of the spirit, conferred through the mind.  That to exist in efficient motion indefinitely; one runs in the immediate moment AND holistically. The holistic runner is that one who has found a higher place in this life expression, and channels all external benefits to a more vibrant life.

In running distances the holistic runner sees many abridging factors and characteristics which happen to be of vital need in any successful aspect of life. "Needs" such as devotion, discipline, passion, long-suffering, patience, meekness, gentleness and numerous branching characteristics which contribute tremendously to humanity.

Success and running efficiency come only to the alert. To be alert in every human capacity suites every prior example of success. To be alert spiritually: to always see and hear the biggest picture of life, and to expect newness and internal revolution daily. To be alert mentally: to use one’s mind as a tool to mediate themselves in this natural realm; to be ready and instant to work with both sides, spirit and body. Here, between ones spirit and body, the distance runners mind is making a willing and eager bid to help fuse the human expression into something more.

To be alert physically: to yield to sub-conscious sensory input, often through split seconds and to act. The body is adjusting instantaneously to direction and information... running as an expression of oneself. All states in the sub-conscious runner are about sensitivity. To be alert is to save one’s life, and to deliver life to others.  Enjoy!

Inspired to LIVE Better... Stronger!

Who is truly living that does not seek out the things which daily inspire them to live better?  The things which convict them to live stronger?  I suppose if we do not, or cannot, then there is always help in unexpected places!  This short video is just that help... behold a father and his son!  Can you stand it without tears? 

The Rhythm of Life

If we have not seen it already, there is a wonderful rhythm of life; sometimes as a riddle, not such a wonderful rhythm. However, in all things this rhythm exists... and should we understand it, we can EXPECT it and even DIRECT it! The sub-conscious runner runs first after the rhythm of their own lives. The distance provides a basin of demand upon the runner's personhood. This 'basin' is a predictable measure, even a sharpening stone to the human character and a cleanser to the personality.

The sub-conscious runner relaxes in the pleasant serenity of each runs rhythm... serenity ambivalent to circumstance. This distance runner need not take surprise of weather or mood, or pleasure or pain, for they accept every run as a little lifetime. Every run is a discovery in the rhythm of their lives.

Forward Thoughts In Running Motion!



 The serious investment of distance running cannot be sustained with longevity as a physical commitment alone.  Only as the human consciousness undertakes the discipline of running holistically, will success continue. That is, in essence, the expression of distance running being a spiritual release and cognitive discipline. As with all things in life, the physical expression of life is the last of all products in the process. Anything worthwhile, anything lasting, is sustained in spiritual virtue, and delineated through the avenues of the mind. After this, the body makes the appropriate expressions.

So, distance running is a spiritual practice and exercise, as illustrated historically through the coming examples of anthropology, sociology and spirituality. In life there is no other lasting strength to sustain the human spirit but the Creative Spirit of God.