Diary Entry, August 24, 2004
Life is so much nicer when each day is lived with grace and generosity and joy. But doing that, actually DOING that? It's fucking hard.Life is kind of like running. There's a downhill part. When you're running downhill, breath comes easier, muscles relax, and you get hopeful that maybe you can run an extra two miles today. Inspiration hits.Of course, then you have to go uphill. Breathing is harder, gravity works against you, and you're focused on just making it to the top. The key, the challenge, the opportunity, is to hold onto that inspiration you plucked out of the air on your downhill run; and on your jogs uphill - no matter how long the hill - to realize that the landscape will shift again.
In the days of old, many seasons in the past. I ran track. I had a run time that was slower than usually. I said "But, coach it is rainning"..He looked up and then looked at me. he said,, "Yep, but just as I thought, it is rainning in all six lanes". You are not alone,,:)
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