This is a response to the one-word prompt “Marathon” by “The Daily Post.”

When one thinks of marathons, the image that comes to mind is of a group of runners going a very long destence on a hot sunny day and swetting perfusly at the end of it. But that is not the only kind of marathon in exsistance. A marathon could be anything or goal you have and have to deal with. As with a marathon, it is often extremly tirering and hardwork, but offering a very rewarding experience at the end.

If you think of it, one’s life is just one “big marathon” with lots of “little marathon’s in it. A lot of times we do not know what we will get in life, or what will come of all our efforts, and we are offten “let down” a lot (at least I am). Yet, we still push on and continue on the paths that either we had set for ourselves or had been set for us, or we make a course correction mid-way onto another path.

We do not let the difficultly of what we face in life hold us down or stop us from reaching the finish line, because despite it all we still have in our “mind’s eye”a picture of what could await us in the end.  At least that is how I have always looked at it, and hope you do too. For what is life, and all of the “marathons” we face if there is nothing to show for it.

So what kind of “marathons” have you had in this life? How difficult have they been and did you give-up, make a course correction, or pushed onto the finnish line? What did you get/learn from the experience, and was it worth it? For me the experiences have always been worth it, and will continue to be so, even in the most difficult and pain filled “marathons” of my life. Because I know that in the end something greater is waiting for me, and all that I experience is leading up to that final “finish line.” That being a relationship with my God, through Jesus Christ. So push on and finish the “marathon” of life.