Things Learned On A Run

16.30 | I went for a run during the summer time and I went on a path that I had not been down in a long time. It made me recall places from my early childhood.

I saw places where I crashed my bike throughout the years. The first where I was going to fast and didn't the turn over the hill so I went straight into the leaves and probably scabbed my knee. The second where I was going really fast down the hill and people popped up all of a sudden and I crashed into the leaves. That was probably my softest crash ever.

It reminded me of Batman and a good quote from that movie. "Why do we fall down? So we learn how to pick ourselves back up."

As I was running I realized how fast cars seem at 30 miles per hour. When I go thirty in a car I feel like thick syrup falling off a spoon. When I was running though thirty miles an hour looks really fast. I enjoyed running slower at that moment and decided that we all need to slow down and not let life rush us by.

There is a Jack Johnson song that says,
"Slow down everyone
You're moving too fast
Frames can't catch you when
You're moving like that"

I don't know why but I like that line.


When I was running everything seemed a lot smaller than what they used to be when I was a child.

"The big hill" wasn't so big anymore.
That other hill we went super fast down doesn't seem to fast now.
Those long bike rides don't seem so long.

The beauty is still the same.

The lake is dried up.
The geese aren't around in the usual spot they were.
The grass doesn't seem as green.
The baseball field doesn't seem as big.
The tennis courts don't seem as far.

Things seemed to change as I have gotten older. The world seems much bigger now than what it used to be. What once was fantastic is now just average.

When we fall everything changes. After my first bike crash I would slow down a lot when I got to that corner. We still get up again and our scabbed knees heal but the memory still seems to be there.

Growing up seems to expands our knowledge of what the world is like. It seems to make what once was great seem not-so-great anymore. This seems to happen with God too. When I learn more about Him what I thought was amazing gets blown apart and now I can't even fathom what He is like. I don't think our knowledge can even comprehend who God is. All I know is that the more I learn, a new kind of amazing gets put in my brain and makes the old amazement seem disappointing.

So this goes out to running and to replacing amazement...