Like the mushroom I have emerged back into the world - the routine of the early morning weekend sweats. But like anytime you put an old uniform back on - it does not quite fit. I feel different on these runs and not just because I am unfit. Experiences of the past 18 months have changed me and I cannot go back to who I was before. After any period of profound personal grief - you realise that life just rolls on with or without you. Bad things happen to good people - that's the lottery of life. For me, acceptance of that has been a pathway to peace. Practicing daily gratitude - I realise that I have so much to be thankful for. Running is just the icing.
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- God, give me grace to accept with serenity
- the things that cannot be changed,
- Courage to change the things
- which should be changed,
- and the Wisdom to distinguish
- the one from the other.
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- Living one day at a time,
- Enjoying one moment at a time,
- Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
- Taking, as Jesus did,
- This sinful world as it is,
- Not as I would have it,
- Trusting that You will make all things right,
- If I surrender to Your will,
- So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
- And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
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- Amen.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
