Why is it we admire the dedicated, obsessive training, sacrifice and effort that would otherwise be considered abnormal, eccentric and even harmful if applied to other areas of our lives like cleaning, cooking, babysitting,
It is actually quite complex yet simple, we love the moment of victory and we feel the joy they feel as we imagine what it would be like if... it... were us... It is part of how we are designed, how we were created and how we are moved and motivated.
As a side note my pet peeve, It is the reason we pay our professional athletes well while nursing home attendants scrape by at near poverty levels. I am sure we would all prefer to pay those who we entrust the weakest people to be cared for... but still I sit glued to the TV....hoping for someone to win something that I will forget about in a few days.... and does not really matter in the overall scheme of life and death.
When we realize the limitations our often broken temporary bodies, we see there are precious few if any races we would even dream to qualify for....EXCEPT this one
Going deeper:
There is a race that REALLY MATTERS we are all in that YOU CAN and will actually win! Take a look at the following words that God spoke to you... Listen to what God is whispering to your heart, absorb it all the way to your mind and secure it as a treasure you look at time and time again to refresh your spirit.
We are all cheering for YOU as you live your life in the anonymity of every day life. Like Jean Hooper who through multiple surgeries after a pickup truck nearly killed her in a crosswalk while she was skateboarding reading to the patients at the nursing home! As you go out day by day compassionately loving others, knowing your gentle touch and your voice is backed by the hosts of Heaven.
Therefore, since we are
surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let
us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Hebrews 12:1-4 (The
Message) 1 Do you see what this means - all these pioneers who blazed
the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get
on with it. Strip down, start running - and never quit! No extra
spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. 2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both
began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because
he never lost sight of where he was headed - that
exhilarating finish in and with God - he
could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And
now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. 3 When
you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again,
item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That
will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
but those who hope in the
LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Running alongside of you
on this journey with, through and by His power.
Bill Sullivan
The Physically Challenged
Ministry
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