Foretaste
10/26/07 01:56 PM *Spirituality
As I said last week, some days I feel really good
during my run and sometimes I feel old. The days I
feel old are a harbinger of mortality and as such,
are probably spiritually useful (silver lining and
all that rot).
The days that I feel really good are spiritually useful also. For they are also harbingers, harbingers of immortality. When I'm running a long or tough course and all is clicking and I seem to be temporarily transcending my bodily limitations I get a three-dimension, all-five-sensual taste of what heaven will be like in my new sin-and-death-and-curse free body. It's one thing to know such things intellectually, but to actually be able to FEEL, coursing through my whole body, a sample of what that will be like is truly, in the most literal sense, glorious. And faith-building: it makes it a lot easier to rejoice that my real home is in heaven and that this world and this life will soon pass away.
Caveat: If you'd like to try this experiment at home- be forewarned: it takes a while to get there. But it's worth it.
The days that I feel really good are spiritually useful also. For they are also harbingers, harbingers of immortality. When I'm running a long or tough course and all is clicking and I seem to be temporarily transcending my bodily limitations I get a three-dimension, all-five-sensual taste of what heaven will be like in my new sin-and-death-and-curse free body. It's one thing to know such things intellectually, but to actually be able to FEEL, coursing through my whole body, a sample of what that will be like is truly, in the most literal sense, glorious. And faith-building: it makes it a lot easier to rejoice that my real home is in heaven and that this world and this life will soon pass away.
Caveat: If you'd like to try this experiment at home- be forewarned: it takes a while to get there. But it's worth it.
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