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

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.

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

To state it simply: Running became prayer.

“Prayer is the desire to pray.”