I have a love-hate relationship with running. From the pain of training, the anticipation of the starting line, the struggles in between and the elation of the finish line. After all, doesn't running echo all these moments in Life?
So why do we run? I believe we run because we are competitors. We run because we are survivors. We run to the ones we love. We run from our fears. Sometimes we run from ourselves. From the beginning of time, running has been a God given protection from the terrors that loom behind us.
But in Life, like running, despite all the pain and struggles there is always a light at the end of the tunnel and the finish line ahead. The philosopher in me also contemplates that we might run to Know God. We run to be in His Shoes. We run to understand the struggles and suffering of His Human Being. This is the self-induced Cross we choose to carry. But in the end, even in our moments of weakness, He always carries us to that finish line...So I will pick up my cross and run to Him over and over again through all the Paths of Life
M.McMahon MD
