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Edie Littlefield Sundby

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Caddo County, Oklahoma, The United States

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http://www.themissionwalker.com/

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Memoir, Self Help, Spirituality

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My Mama, Ecclesiastes, Epictetus, and Elvis singing gospel

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Under siege from relentless stage 4 cancer, and after losing her right lung, Edie Littlefield Sundby became the first person in history to walk the 1,600-mile El Camino Real de las Californias mission trail through the mountain wilderness of Baja Mexico across one of the hottest deserts on earth, and north of the border from San Diego to Sonoma.

She experienced desert heat and cold, walls of cactus, sleeplessness, hunger, both physical and spiritual exhaustion, the dangers of wild creatures and encounters with drug smugglers – and weeks with no water other than what a pack mule could carry.

“The Mission Walker” is her account of the experience and struggles she endured, and the inspiration drawn from the old unmapped Spanish mission trail.

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I hope you are feeling some better ??? The cover of your book grabbed me== so I will take the time to thank you for the chance to win it too.. Prayers to your continued health...

Edie Littlefield Sundby Thank you for this sweet note, and the prayers! I'm glad you liked the book cover, Paula - HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson did a really great job on the c…moreThank you for this sweet note, and the prayers! I'm glad you liked the book cover, Paula - HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson did a really great job on the cover. I feel so blessed to work with such a great team. I always feel good - and no matter what's happening on the outside, I'm smiling on the inside ... with stage 4 cancer everyday is a bonus day; life is too short to have a bad day :) Blessings to you! Edie xo (less)

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You are such an inspiring and amazing lady! My Dad has stage IV colorectal cancer. He was diagnosed last year and has gone through some terrible times with chemotherapy (though not as bad as some people). I found out about you because my Mom and I saw you on Hallmark's Home and Family show. Are you still doing chemotherapy? Hope you are doing well. Thankyou :).

Edie Littlefield Sundby Dear Amaya, I am so very sad to hear of your father. I hope and pray he is doing okay. It is so overwhelming, for all of you. I had five and a half ye…moreDear Amaya, I am so very sad to hear of your father. I hope and pray he is doing okay. It is so overwhelming, for all of you. I had five and a half years of chemo (every three weeks) - 79 rounds, and 830,000 mgs. And four surgeries. (It's come back three times.) But thank God I have been able to continue to walk, and live, through all of it. I hope you and your father find inspiration, and hope, in The Mission Walker. Please keep in touch! Edie xoxo(less)

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The Walker and the Saint

(NOTE: The Walker and the Saint by Edie Littlefield Sundby was published in The Wall Street Journal, September 2015.)

I started walking Father Junipero Serra’s old California mission trail the day I was told I was dying of cancer.

I’m not a Catholic, but I love to walk. So did Father Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan missionary who traveled more than 24,000 miles in his lifetime, mostly by foot, an Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 28, 2017 17:20 • Tags: adventure, cancer, christianity, health, hiking, memoir, non-fiction, nonfiction, outdoors, self-help, spirituality, travel, wellness

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“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

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“We all die. Not all of us live.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

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“I thank God every day for this life, and I want there to be more, though that’s not known. What is known is that I’m alive today, this minute. And that’s pretty much what we all have – this day, this moment.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

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