The Long Run Book Review

I just finished up "The Long Run" by Matt Long. This is the story of an endurance athlete and FDNY Firefighter who got hit by a bus. The book chronicles his amazing recovery, the very emotional feelings that he went through, and his triumphant return of running the New York Marathon, and then finishing an Ironman Triathlon. He should have died from all the injuries that he sustained in the accident, but he worked through all of those things and ended up doing something after his accident that most people don't ever do with a completely 100% healthy body. It is a great story and at the same time tragic. The suffering and trials that we face are overwhelming sometimes, but the ability to overcome those is even more astounding than the horrible things that can happen to us. The fact that God has given us a soul that longs to overcome the fallenness of the world is an incredible thing. We are clearly created for another place, a place that even if we aren't concious of it drives us to amazing feats.