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Running on Broken Legs

My Journey to Joy

Author

Narrator

English

ISBN: 978-1-951310-79-0

Description

Take undersized five-year-old farm girl Elinor, give her the polio that not only cripples her but also nearly kills her, then give her an impossible dream. In her childhood and again as a college student she rebels against the plan. Finally, she embraces the dream, and it leads Elinor to one of the most primitive, rugged places on earth and to a life that brawny international explorers would envy.

For nearly eighteen years Elinor deals with murdering tribal people, a devastating earthquake and the relief efforts that follow, joys, triumphs, depression, peace, life-threatening illnesses, recovery, and friendship with the Kimyal tribal people, whom she comes to deeply respect and love. The Kimyal people give her the name Bad Legs, which to them reflects how her weak body shows them God’s love. Finally, the late effects of Elinor’s original polio force her to leave the place and people that her heart has embraced. She must find a way to say goodbye.

In typical Kimyal fashion, Elinor tells a story to picture a profound truth: our weaknesses can be the conduit of strength beyond our own.

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Tracks

Opening Credits
Author's Intro
Chapter 1: Change
Chapter 2: Polio
Chapter 3: New Identity
Chapter 4: Hospital Life
Chapter 5: Home Again
Chapter 6: Reentry
Chapter 7: The "Body Shop"
Chapter 8: My Expanding World
Chapter 9: Which Path?
Chapter 10: My Choice
Chapter 11: To the Snowy North
Chapter 12: Lots to Learn
Chapter 13: Tools for My Skill Bucket
Chapter 14: Bigger Challenges
Chapter 15: Practical Preparation
Chapter 16: More School
Chapter 17: "In" or "Out"?
Chapter 18: Solo Cross-Continent Drive
Chapter 19: Building My Team
Chapter 20: Not the Nanny
Chapter 21: First Introduction to Indonesia
Chapter 22: Irian Jaya At Last
Chapter 23: Cultural Impressions
Chapter 24: What's Ahead?
Chapter 25: Another World
Chapter 26: Adjustments
Chapter 27: Which Tibe?
Chapter 28: A Delay in Plans
Chapter 29: Troubling News
Chapter 30: A Trip to Soba
Chapter 31: Kamur: I Visit the Lowlands
Chapter 32: First Visit to Korupun
Chapter 33: I Begin Life at Korupun
Chapter 34: More Firsts
Chapter 35: A House of My Own
Chapter 36: Prayer, Violence, and Demonism
Chapter 37: Grief, Comfort and Goals
Chapter 38: Shaken
Chapter 39L Juggling Roles
Chapter 40: Mountain Climbing
Chapter 41: Amateur Tropical Medicine
Chapter 42: The End of the Beginning
Chapter 43: New Teammates, New Progress
Chapter 44: Mom's Visit
Chapter 45: Siud, a ChangeMaker
Chapter 46: Nurse Elinor
Chapter 47: A People Transformed
Chapter 48: A Growing Church
Chapter 49: Battles with Disease and Depression
Chapter 50: Translating Bible Books and Stories
Chapter 51: A Hydro Plant for Korupun
Chapter 52: Translation Stories
Chapter 53: Kimyal Missionaries
Chapter 54: Bad Legs
Chapter 55: Unhappy Legs, Angry Ticker
Chapter 56: What to Do?
Chapter 57: I Leave Korupun
Chapter 58: Goodbye to My Kimyal Friends
Epilogue
Afterword
Closing Credits

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