The Nature of God

I believe I was created in the image of God.  (See Genesis 1:26-27)  I believe that means that God has arms and hands and legs and feet and a head and that you can touch all that, just like you can touch me.  And should you wonder about the male / female issue, I believe God has a wife.  But I started wondering about the little stuff a few days ago.  Like, does God have capillaries?  Does he have all the same muscles and tendons I do?  How about an appendix?  Or did he have that taken out?

I recently read - well, listened to on CD - Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall.  Catchy title, huh?  The author gets injured out running and decides to ignore the advice of the sports podiatrists to just give it up.  He starts researching injuries and runners and races and shoes and methods.  It helps that he's a journalist and get paid to do this sort of thing.  Anyway, it grabbed me at the first, almost lost me in the middle but I'm glad I persevered because the best was yet to come.  He delved into some research that scientists have done into how the human body is uniquely evolved for distance runnning.  I won't go into it all here and since I listened to it I don't actually have a hard copy to refer to BUT, they talk about ligaments and tendons and muscles and physiological traits that lend themselves to that idea.  Like the fact that we have this tendon (I think it was a tendon) that's only purpose is to hold our head still while we run.  Serves no other purpose.  I found it fascinating.  I found it evidence that God knew exactly what he was doing when he created us.  Like Alma said, "all things denote there is a God" (see Alma 30:44).  We are amazing!  Seriously.

Which led me to this thought.  If we were designed to be "running men", does that mean we are children of a "Running God"?  Like I asked at the beginning, does He (and his wife) have all those same ligaments and tendons and muscles and physiological traits?  I'm guessing yes.  We are created in the image of God.  So. 

What does that tell me about the nature of God?  Is it significant that He is a Running God?  And what does it mean for me to be a child of that God?  I dunno.  I think there's something there though.  Something that communicates the significance and importance of our bodies.  Something that implies what a sacred gift that body is and the importance of caring for that body.  Something about the joy that it brings to an eternal soul to be a spirit united with a perfect body for eternity.

Thoughts?