Easy Jogger

Why easy jogger?

There are different kinds of joggers. Desperate joggers are those who imagine themselves athletes in the Olympics or operatives in a police or military special action force so they always kill themselves jogging hard. There are also cute joggers who move so slowly that they're easily overtaken by people who walk casually. Then there are normal joggers who maintain a steady, average jogging pace.

And then there are easy joggers like me who just take their time jogging and enjoying it. We just jog, period. We're neither too fast or too slow. We're almost like normal joggers except that we're not normal. 

But the phrase "easy jogger" in my blog title "Life and Stories of an Easy Jogger" is not really so much about my jogging pace as it is my general speed movement in life. I compare life to jogging---you move and try to see different aspects of life in steady leisurely strides. Sometimes, that's how you get to your real destination in time. Plain walking is a bit too slow but running is also too fast. Too slow makes you late to witness the real-time progress of natural life while too fast makes you miss all the wonderful details. 

So I take life as an easy jogger, just relaxing and enjoying while making sure I cover distance at my own pace, the pace God made me comfortable with. My comfort zone, if you will (comfort zones are not always bad). I hate being in a hurry or being pushed to be in a hurry. Even in ministry. What are you hurrying for? Who makes deadlines? It's only people who want to take charge of everyone's life and control everything, as if they're the saviors of the world.

God, on the other hand, tells us to rest.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. [Hebrews 4.11]

Hurrying often makes you miss some vital instruction details that eventually leads to disobedience. See? They hurry to accomplish a lot (to be recognized by men) but their works lack a lot of vital details---small details that mean a lot to God. They're always after BIG details that earn them the applaud of people. The world sees nothing but big things.

A lot of people are armchair travelers. They move a lot around but never cover any distance. You see them going here and there physically, achieving this and that. but mentally and emotionally they never change for the better. They're still the same old immature, self-centered, insensitive individuals they were 10 or 20 years ago.

...always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. [2 Timothy 3.7]

Competitive joggers jog for recognition and a prize that makes them popular. Easy joggers just want to stay healthy and fit so they'd live well and enjoy other people's company. We don't make plans or goals to beat records or prove anything. We just go out there and jog. So what if we're not the best joggers? So what if we're not big-time joggers. A lot of armchair joggers are absorbed with these.

A lot of fitness experts say easy jogging won't make you lose weight and become fit. Well, all forms of exercises are sure to only do you good, though not all will give you bulky and well defined muscles. The important thing is you have good health. So what if your muscles are not chiseled out like what Mr. Universe has?

And so what if you're not an achiever in life? The main thing is that you lived a good life. Can you live a good life without being an achiever? Ask Enoch. He lived a good life just walking with God for 300 years, and that without being an achiever, as the world understands the term.