Running Toward Ascension

We’ve all been asked “Why do you run?” The answer may come quickly, but sometimes it requires thought – and naturally, all answers will be different.
 
Recently someone asked me that leading question. I wish I had answered this way:
 
When I run quickly down a track, I am engaged in defying gravity.
 
Anything in our world that is in motion is defying gravity. However, I like doing it under my own power, proving it can’t contain me if it can’t still me. 
 
A helpful balance to growing older is that I have faith my soul is not bound by gravity. The consciousness of my soul can extend to God in prayer. It can search a universe of wonder while I sit still.
 
One day my soul will ascend. It will separate from me, and gravity will no longer be my challenge. Until then, the fight with gravity brings me a glimpse of ascension, and that brings me joy. Gravity will lose.

~~Rick Riddle