RUN INTO THE WIND

I used to run...are you laughing...well I did I used to run, and I learned so much from the experience of running...

I learned about how we should work on spiritual things the way we work on physical things, that we are asked to pray and read scriptures and do good works to stay in shape, to work hard and be ready when we really need the strength, just the way that we train by runnonf for a marathon.

One day I was running...it was night, and the Spanish Fork wind was howling, and I was running right into it....it was shoving me back I coud feel my body straining against the blast...and I was so tired I wanted to stop...but I didnt want to be beat, I wanted to finish. Into my mind I thought about sin...how it was so like the wind...it pushes on you always, trying to hold you back, and if you push through, if you keep going even when you are tired, it will make you stronger...

That is what I learned from running...