Yesterday, I jogged for 17.5 miles with little walking. After my 54 miles trek last weekend, I found yesterday\’s run incredible. I am a person who does a 50 mile jog without much trouble and bounces right back.
I found my self insanely happy. I signed up for a 20k run next weekend.
Something about that 54 miles trek which ended at 2 am in frozen darkness was not a failure but a breakthru. Somehow, its not that I failed at 100 miles but that I am free of the need to go 100 miles. I\’m incredibly pleased that 50 miles is the normal course of things. And my weekend of reading nun books had also set me free. This I can\’t really explain why. But I have heard the Spirit whisper.
My ACIM lesson this morning said: Spirit I am, a holy Son of God, free from all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.
Also, during my reading, I had realized that looking beyond is the whole way out of the dread of this world.
This morning, I found that the joy was still conscious for me. I started out my run, planning a 10 mile jog. As I started running, I found myself thinking my usually litany of why I am different and against others, with impending doom related to work lurking above me. Within 0.3 miles it suddenly hit me: You create your own reality Dummy.
And suddenly I knew. I just need to stop projecting whatever. It has been given me to look beyond, I can see the face of Christ. Thats it.
Evidence: yesterday in an AA meeting here in the bible belt, Baptist mecca, a woman mentioned she was a Unitarian and atheists attended her church. Another mentioned the 4 Noble Truths. Ok, so A Course in Miracles should not bother these people.
This week: 65.6 miles, and 21 hours of cardio (includes jogging and cross training), and 5 strength workouts.
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