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Happy new year! Have you made your New Year’s
resolutions yet? Are you ready to make this next year, this
next decade the best ever? Are you ready to give your all?
To work harder than ever, to serve others and God like never
before? Good. Now don’t forget that little something that
will allow you to be the very best you can be. Don’t forget
to play!!!
I read a book over Christmas called Running and Being, written by
the late Dr. George Sheehan in 1978. In it, the author tells of his midlife
return to a life of exercise and play. Bored with his world of medicine,
he started running and found out that the body has a mind of its own. His
running, his “play”, proved to be a great revelation and source
of personal growth.
Dr. Sheehan would answer it all starts with the body. A fit body helps
determine our mental and spiritual energies. Quoting the book summary,
according to Sheehan, leading the “athletic life” is essential
for meeting life’s everyday challenges. For Sheehan, “Play is
where life lives.” If you can find your “play,” you are
on your way to discovering the person you were meant to be: “If you
want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you’d
best begin with the Little Answers about your body.”
Want to be your best? Sheehan writes, “...heed the inner calling to
your own Play. Listen if you can to the person you were and are and can
be. Then do what you do best and feel best at. Something you would do for
nothing. Something that gives you security and self-acceptance and a feeling
of completion; even moments when you are fused with your universe and your
Creator. When you find it, build your life around it.”
Happy New Year! |
About the Author:
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Barry Holmen is a Christian educator and familyman
from Minot, ND. He enjoys running and golf and playing with
his two small boys. Barry also serves as webmaster of the Immanuel
Online and Networthy sites.
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