<P>Immerse yourself in the amazing story of Edie Littlefield Sundby who after being told she had only 3 months to live survived 79 rounds of chemotherapy radical liver and lung surgeries and then walked 800 miles along the California Mission Trail averaging 14 miles a day and stopping at life-giving missions to revive her body and her soul.</p><P>When she finished she yearned to walk the mission trail from its start - in Mexico. But no one had traversed that trail in 250 years.</P><P>As you will learn in the pages of this book Edie doesn’t care about what some deem impossible. It is that spirit that has allowed her to live despite the odds.</P><P>With fading strength and only one lung she walked another 800 miles through the rugged mountains and deserts of Baja Mexico to the California border. In a walk of triumph of harrowing adventure and of spiritual enlightenment she carried her mortality in every step and in the process opened up a profound communion with God and his creation and the true meaning of life.</P><P>And all of this with a terminal cancer that was chasing her every step of the way. It still is and she continues to walk with it every day.</P><P><I>For me walking is a transcendent physical emotional and spiritual experience like dancing. 'If I can move I am not sick.” That is my alternate reality. And I believe with all my will in that reality. So when cancer strikes again and again I walk to stay alive.</p><P>Life is the greatest adventure there is. Why stop our adventuring because someone says the end might be near?</I></P><P>For those who crave a spirit of adventure who ache like Edie to know what our bodies and spirits are truly capable of this book is a must-read. A true testament to faith courage and the power of hope.</P>
Title | The Mission Walker |
Author | Edie Littlefield Sundby |
Narrator | Jaimee Paul |
Media | Audiobooks |
Genre | General Fiction |
ISBN | 9780718093303 |
Published | 2017-07-25 |
Stock | In stock |
Duration | 11 hours 36 minutes |