Spirit of the Marathon

If anyone is interested, there’s going to be a movie called “Spirit of the Marathon” on Thursday, Feb 21 at 7:30 p.m. I’m not sure that it would encourage any of you to go out and run a marathon after seeing it, but I think it would be a great movie to watch – even if you’re not a runner! Here is the movie trailer:



I ran my first (and probably ONLY) marathon a couple years ago, and in going through the process of training for the race & then actually running the race, I found there were many spiritual parallels. A few things that really hit home for me:

• What it takes to train for an endurance-race vs. a quick sprint (and let’s be real…the “Christian Walk” is NO quick sprint!)
• Persevering…even when it’s painful
• To just keep going even though everything in you wants to quit
• When you’ve “hit your wall” or think you can’t possibly keep going, it’s the crowd around you, cheering you on, that encourages you to not lose heart and to just keep going.
• The importance of taking in water & being nourished throughout the entire race
• To fight through emotional, mental and physical barriers because there’s a goal, a prize, finish line, something you must keep your eyes fixed on.

Feeling the emotions of these things helps to draw a much stronger parallel, rather than to just hear someone “talk about” running a race. Even if you don’t run a marathon, I think the movie would speak to your emotions. It would be a great encouragement in this race we are running, called “the Christian Walk.” It would remind us once again to persevere, to keep our eyes on the prize, to be encouraged by the great cloud of witnesses that surround us, to be nourished by the water of the Word, and to run this race with everything we got! Hope to see you there!

Brigitte Lousberg

PS: Click here for more information and here for tickets.