Running offered an effective physical release from the day's mental activity. When I ran I felt liberated, free from the burden of obligations, expectations, and ambitions.
Running became prayer. I don't mean, merely, that I began to run in a prayerful fashion. It is not that I engage in verbal prayer while I run. It is quite literally, that running has become a prayer.... It is not enough to say that I pray while I run. It is, quite literally, that running has become prayer.
I am speaking of prayer as communion with God, as an awareness of His presence, as a conscious recognition of the divine spirit that dwells in each of us.
