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

“Prayer is the desire to pray.”

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

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

To state it simply: Running became prayer.

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.