Running the Spiritual Path: A Runner's Guide to Breathing, Meditating, and Exploring the Prayerful Dimension of the Sport

My desire is to pray always—to follow St. Paul’s admonition to “Pray without ceasing.”

“Prayer is the desire to pray.”

To state it simply: Running became prayer.

If you walk toward Him, He comes to you running. MAHAMMAD

fashion. It is not that I engage in verbal prayer while I run. (Although, on occasion, I might.) It is not enough to say that I pray while I run. It is, quite literally, that running has become prayer.