Runner's Prayer Eleven

Our Father

This new day comes from you as a gift to be opened. Accept our gratitude for the new possibilities it offers.

Guide us as we seek to experience its full potential. Grant that our past will not determine our future. We cannot change who we have been but we can change who we are becoming. We cannot change where we have been but we can change where we are going. Help us to find life’s best as we follow your leadership.

New thoughts will come to mind as the ground between start and finish is covered. Bring clarity of insight and fresh perspectives to our living. As physical bodies run free, liberate our minds to discover new solutions for old problems.

The testing of this day will lead to newfound strength. Through our successes and failures there will be new lessons to learn. As we give our best to this contest, help us to embrace life fully and to overcome its challenges with new tenacity.

We give thanks for new friendships that will be made and for old friendships that will grow to new depths. New records will be set and new difficulties will be faced. Through all we experience, strengthen our character and humble our spirit.

We give thanks for this opportunity to discover who we are created to be. Reveal to us the reasons you have given us life and grant us a new sense of purpose as we make this journey together. Provide a fresh sense of your presence as we finish the course before us.

By your grace help us to run this race with a sense of newness, as though for first time.

Amen.