Patrick Muldoon

I recently attended a Personal Development Workshop for Runners of all levels. Taking part in the workshop challenged me to reset my priorities and focus on how running can be a meditation and therapeutic practice for the mind that can help us check in with our emotions; and how it can also be a spiritual practice that has the capacity to take us to the home of soul.

The Easter Triduum is a symbolic and sacred time for Christians all over the world. Good Friday has always been particularly meaningful for me. The Cross has given me consolation and strength in difficult times and has helped me to see the infinite love of God in my life. The Cross also challenges me to be a real Christian and to live forgiveness. Forgiving those who have hurt me is the only way that I can experience interior peace and freedom in my heart, and get on with my life, and strive to live it to the full.

Spending some restful holiday time in Albefuira, part of the Algarve, Portugal’s southernmost region, has lifted my mind, body and soul. Allowing the Spring sunshine to radiate into my heart has given me a renewed positive perspective on my life and a desire to continue to share the light of the Good News of the Christian faith.

I recently visited Malta which was on my bucket list of travel destinations. I learned more about the life of Saint Paul and came away challenged, by the Christian witness of the Maltese people and the realisation that amidst the storms of life God in his wisdom heals and offers hope.

Although living life as a single person over the past fourteen years has been challenging at times, my single life state has also given me freedom and independence. I wouldn’t change the journey that I have been on, even the times when I had to embrace the Cross. I am okay with being vulnerable because I believe God is still working on me. I trust in his providence and I desire to surrender my future plans to his will. I truly believe that God accomplishes everything in his own time.