I was hooked and I absolutely loved what I was reading and was so agreeing with what Chris Mcdougall had to say. I kept asking myself, "why I waited so long to read it!" What amazing stories of endurance and overcoming challenges. I wasn’t impressed with the swearing, but my mom took care of that, she took whiteout to all the inappropriate words so my young eyes would not have to view them. I was eating all the words up and loving it! I came to a chapter towards the end of the book that I knew was not the truth. The whole chapter was about evolution and how we evolved from an ape type of man. How our bodies evolved and made changes over millions of years. I applaud these scientists who are trying to discover the truth on where we came from. The body is amazing and if I didn’t know the truth I would want to know. I do know the truth though and I know where we came from. I wanted ( want) to write Mr. Mcdougall and thank him for his wonderful findings, his inspiration to make this journey, and to find some type of truth. He was searching for answers. I want to let him know that the answer to his question, "where do humans come from?" can be found in the quote by Leonardo Da vinci, “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” Our foot is a masterpiece not because we evolved from the ape man but because we were created in the image of a loving Heavenly Father. That kind of perfection, beauty and art could only come from a personage who is great and perfect and loving. He loved(s) us so much that he wanted to give us what He has.
I also want to answer the question posed in the book about why we were created as endurance creatures and not with other types of speed or physical strengths as other mammals might have. I came to know the truth of the answer this morning on my run. I had heard talks and quotes on this subject so many times before, but this morning it hit me so powerfully that it brought me to tears. In the middle of my run I was crying! Crying out of joyfulness that I knew the truth. We were made as endurance creatures because that is what we were sent here to do! We are here to endure. Just as running an ultra marathon where you go through different pains, trials, emotions, joys etc. That is what life is all about! Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ speaks to us and teaches us through symbolism and what better way to symbolize endurance than through running. We are endurance creatures! We came this earth to gain a body like our loving Heavenly Father and we came to endure, to overcome, to gain self mastery. We came to find our perfect form, to learn to do what our Savior would do, and move forward without fear, to put our trust in Him who sent us here and to learn how to find our way to that finish line which is with our eternal families and our loving Heavenly Father.
