tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post5913272957440408016..comments2024-03-27T20:22:42.005-06:00Comments on light-in-leaves: I can keep goingMarilynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085334272613025173noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-22630532594257563622016-04-18T06:44:09.337-06:002016-04-18T06:44:09.337-06:00This took me back to the times when we decided wha...This took me back to the times when we decided what was considered "running" and "jogging." The frustration of how quickly one becomes out of running shape is very very real. Yet, along with that-- once you become a "runner," I feel you always will be one. There is a constant draw to return to it...to continue to work towards something. Thank you for the connections to the mental, emotional, and spiritual truths that come with this comparison. I always loved running with you. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448002305220029565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-89089573327916198922016-04-02T19:08:43.912-06:002016-04-02T19:08:43.912-06:00I love these beautiful thoughts! As a "walker...I love these beautiful thoughts! As a "walker," I can appreciate the principle (right?).jess and sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03177009492804384516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-66549933270023292082016-03-29T20:30:51.880-06:002016-03-29T20:30:51.880-06:00"Excuse the language." Haha. SO true abo..."Excuse the language." Haha. SO true about the food. I love to eat but I also love the freedom NOT to eat when I feel like it, and with kids you don't get that freedom. It can seem so overwhelming, but there must be something good we learn from it! Something we can't learn, as you said, any other way. And I love the application to constant spiritual nourishment. The umbilical cord connecting us to God.Marilynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085334272613025173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-15000302420508171102016-03-29T20:27:50.660-06:002016-03-29T20:27:50.660-06:00I love that Joseph Smith quote. It always made me ...I love that Joseph Smith quote. It always made me feel a bit sad/sorry for him before, but in this context it seems almost comforting! And hopeful.Marilynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085334272613025173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-47235613770039776742016-03-29T20:26:12.803-06:002016-03-29T20:26:12.803-06:00Thanks, Amy! I agree! It can be mental and spiritu...Thanks, Amy! I agree! It can be mental and spiritual health as much as physical! :)Marilynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085334272613025173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-66123324789465877552016-03-29T20:25:24.111-06:002016-03-29T20:25:24.111-06:00Yes! I love that!Yes! I love that!Marilynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085334272613025173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-40223135282076674372016-03-29T20:24:57.146-06:002016-03-29T20:24:57.146-06:00It's so hard, especially at the end of pregnan...It's so hard, especially at the end of pregnancy…and the first few months of a newborn…and assorted other times. :) Really I've found I don't feel on top of things (to the extent I EVER do) until the baby's a year old. But then things usually seem slightly easier.Marilynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085334272613025173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-76655345120200612922016-03-29T10:56:00.214-06:002016-03-29T10:56:00.214-06:00Wish I had edited before I hit publish . . ..Wish I had edited before I hit publish . . ..Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14301232211779225287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-8118759218322941342016-03-29T10:54:38.147-06:002016-03-29T10:54:38.147-06:00Interesting--I love your insights to life. I have...Interesting--I love your insights to life. I have thought a lot about my children's need to eat constantly. CONSTANTLY--like three times a day every single stinking day. (Excuse the language--I've been pregnant eight times and each and every time the major life battle became feeding people--my own Everest or Sisyphus.) As much as it annoys me and sometimes overwhelms me, their very need for sustenance forces me to constantly reflect on our garments and need for "constant spiritual nourishment." It also makes me reflect on how quickly reading the scriptures (for example) makes a difference and how quickly not reading the scriptures makes a difference. I can go without food--I did it for the six years I was in college when I was too busy to eat regularly, but my children must be fed. Physically, spiritually--and I am in charge of the nourishment. These insights are profound and so rooted in our mortalness--lessons we couldn't learn without the physical, back-breaking, pain-experiencing mortality. Enough from me. Thank you for your lovely words. Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14301232211779225287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-44063471333022795022016-03-29T08:56:11.428-06:002016-03-29T08:56:11.428-06:00Well. I love this. It's one of those things th...Well. I love this. It's one of those things that, reading, it seems so . . . "Well, yes, of course." Because I know it. And yet I don't know that I've thought it in actual words or brought it to the front of my conscious thought. It is different when I can barely run three miles. It doesn't occur to me that that means I can't work up to twenty. Of course I can. And maybe I wouldn't know that if I hadn't started at that and gone further over and over. I'm just saying the same exact things you said. ;) But lovely. And the applications. It reminds me of J. Smith saying trials had become second nature to him. Maybe it was this. Not that they weren't painful. Not that they weren't hard. But that he knew he could swim through them over and over. Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03045958241240870948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-33425173867468041012016-03-29T08:19:08.597-06:002016-03-29T08:19:08.597-06:00Thanks for writing this! This knowledge is one of ...Thanks for writing this! This knowledge is one of the reasons I keep running and hope I will always be a runner. It us one of the things I think when someone tells me I'm crazy for running all the time. It's mostly nothing about physical activity! Amy Sorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08437293387957420625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-9185223364074861432016-03-29T07:55:19.670-06:002016-03-29T07:55:19.670-06:00I have spent the last nearly 8 years fighting for ...I have spent the last nearly 8 years fighting for help for my autistic daughter who also developed mental illness, and trying to hold my family together. I may have gained 20 lbs of stress, but I never quit running! It's been the one thing that has kept me going. I run 20+ miles a week and I am a strong runner. I'm not fast, but I don't quit! It has taught me that I can keep going, every time we hit another obstacle, I can keep going. I may break down and bawl for a moment or two, but I pick myself up and keep going because I'm a runner. I have a sticker on my car that reads "I know I run like a girl. Try to keep up." To me that means we never quit! Running taught me that! Midgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16597294747880276341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1836198539158358199.post-88188995378681307022016-03-28T20:10:20.139-06:002016-03-28T20:10:20.139-06:00This is terrific--particularly because I am curren...This is terrific--particularly because I am currently feeling very large and waddle-y, and I was just thinking today, "What if I deliver this baby and I am still just a slug sitting on my couch? What if I never get my energy back again and my muscles continue to atrophy and I just plod around for the rest of my life?" I knew I was being overdramatic and ridiculous. But I'm still so pleased to hear that you are running because that gives me all kinds of hoping that maybe I can get running again, too.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211852596545213364noreply@blogger.com