Today I started my eighteen week training program for the Twin Cities Marathon. It's the first training program I've been on since running the JFK 50 last November. Yet over the last six months I've logged well over 600 miles.
What were those miles if not training miles? They were maintenance miles, they were miles logged in order to keep my fitness level up, to keep me prepared to start my next round of training. There is no way I could expect to perform well, if at all, if I stopped running altogether between my times of training.
Yet there is a real tendency to neglect our relationship with God and then expect that it will be there when we need it, only to find out that its not. Daily times of prayer (talking with God and listening to God in the Scriptures) are a critical part of mainaining a healthy life.
