Cancer sufferer Edie Littlefield Sundby (with her husband Dale)

Published on Feb 16, 2013

To celebrate six years of being alive, fighting Stage 4 gallbladder cancer with metastasis to liver and lung, Edie Sundby walked the 800 mile El Camino Mission Trail … Edie walked on average 14 and a half miles a day over a 55-day period. “I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life. 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.”

“I walked the old unmapped old mission trail that stretches from San Diego to north of San Francisco to rid myself of the terror of cancer, and to overcome the fear of it coming back. It took hundreds of miles walking to just begin to rid my heart of six years of fear. That fear may never completely fade, but actively engaging life – whatever that may involve – reminds me of the joy each day can bring.”

“The long walk was a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is; along the old trail God is everywhere and in everything. Wherever I look I am looking at God.”

“I came to realize that we are held in the hands of God and are utterly perfectly safe – in life and in death.”