Memoir

Running on Broken Legs: My Journey to Joy

Take an under-sized five-year-old farm girl, give her polio that not only crippled her but nearly killed her, then give her an impossible dream. In her childhood and again as a college student she will rebel against the plan. Finally, she embraces it. It led her to one of the most primitive, rugged places on earth, and a life that brawny international explorers would envy.
Over 17 years there, she deals with murdering tribal people, a devastating earthquake and the relief efforts that followed, joys, triumphs, depression, peace, life-threatening illnesses, recovery, and love and friendship with the Kimyal tribal people she came to deeply respect and love. The Kimyal people give her a name that reflects how even her weak body shows them God’s love.
The late effects of her original polio catch up with her and she must leave the place and people that her heart has embraced. Their final good-by expresses the profound change they all have experienced.

Also See

• From Polio to Papua: Running on Broken Legs video series by HeartCry Missionary Society. 6 interviews with Paul Washer + 1 with children.
  On YouTube
  On HeartCry Website

• Three min. (+/-) video shorts by HeartCry

• Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains book for children by Bible Visuals Int. 
  Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains