On a recent run through my neighborhood, I found myself casting two shadows.  Let me explain.  It was dusk and the sun was going down over the western horizon.  The moon was positioned high in the eastern night sky and the street lamps had begun to cast their rays throughout the neighborhood.  About 1.5 miles into my run, I began to notice that every time I passed a street light, and the light was behind me, a long shadow was cast far in front of me.  About 2 miles into the run, I suddenly noticed another shadow cast just over my right shoulder.  It was a bit disarming at first, casting two shadows at the same time, one far in front of me, the other just over my right shoulder.  The long shadow would come and go, but the short shadow stayed with me.  At the end of my run, when both shadows were gone, I found myself wondering about the shadow that my life is casting.  We all cast shadows with our lives, by the way we run the race of life, through our words and our deeds, in the way we invest ourselves in things that matter or things that really don’t, through the causes we support and the difference we try to make in the world.  Yes, we all cast shadows….the question is…”Will they be long ones or short ones?”