The journey is the destination
Chris Knott celebrates the pleasures of running
Over thirty-five years ago, in a Meeting for Worship in Wilmslow, I was led to say the words: ‘The journey is the destination’. I did not know then that they were to be an important mantra for me in my life and none more so than recently. For, I am the mother who did not run a marathon. This was how my son described me a few weeks ago. Where to begin? An elder of our Meeting gave me an article from the Church Times entitled ‘Running can seem like prayer’ by Giles Fraser. She said it reminded her of something I had said about running in one of our Blue Idol Meeting discussion groups. I had said that running was a bit like a Meeting for Worship: hard to get going, sometimes not wanting to be there but when it goes well it is like nothing else and lovely when it is over and you can talk about it over refreshments.
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