preparation in the key of life

 

This morning I woke from a great night's sleep

after a long day of work

and a great date with my wife

I was rested

So I wrote

For church

For what would happen before, at 2:00pm

Somewhere around late morning and on to midday

I began to clean

I threw out the excess and cleared the desk

And the floor

I was a bit later to the mile race then I’d planned

But the office was clean and I felt nourished

by tidiness at an unexpected hour

I listened to Ephesians on the drive over in the light rain and thought God is good on a cloudy, foggy, cool afternoon: There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

I made it to the city of oaks, center-city, in plenty of time

Shared a jersey with a new runner

Stretched out legs

Picked up bibs

Prepared my heart

Laced up trainers then racers

Not my most disciplined first quarter of the race

Still two seconds too fast

Pushed with a protégé

On the back side of capitol square

Didn’t hurt enough on the closing 500 meters

But that’s what next time is for

Ran 8-10 seconds faster than ever before for the distance of one mile

I’m thirty seven.