Making Sense of Suffering
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Joni Eareckson Tada knows about these emotions first hand. A diving accident in 1967 left her confined to a wheelchair as a quadriplegic at the age of 17. Joni knows what it's like to suffer chronic pain. Yet she has found comfort and meaning in the God of the Bible.
Joni says, “Somewhere after the first five years of life in my wheelchair, I noticed a change in my hardships. I was beginning to see how my quadriplegia was working for my good and God's glory - simply put, it meant becoming more like Christ.”
Making Sense of Suffering is a Scripture-based ebook that will bring hope and comfort to those who are going through for personal difficulties, and will be a great help to groups dealing with grief, disabilities, emotional and physical trauma, divorce, and more.
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Joni Eareckson Tada offers hope to people struggling with health and emotional challenges. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joni and Friends International Disability Center, an international advocacy for people with disabilities. The topics of fear, hopelessness, depression, suffering, loneliness, and worry are issues Joni Eareckson Tada can speak to personally—and thankfully she does.After a 1967 diving accident left Joni Eareckson Tada a spinal cord-injured quadriplegic (without the use of her hands and legs) she embarked on a lifelong study to make sense of suffering from God's perspective.Joni Eareckson Tada is now an international advocate for individuals with disabilities, and has served several times on the National Council on Disability and the Disability Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department. She serves in an advisory capacity to multiple organizations, such as Disability Concerns for World Evangelization and the National Institute on Learning Disabilities.She has received numerous awards and honors, including the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award; The Courage Award from the CourageRehabilitation Center; The Award of Excellence from the Patricia Neal RehabilitationCenter; The Victory Award from the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and The GoldenWord Award from the International Bible Society.Joni has written over 50 books and numerous magazine articles. She was inductedinto the Christian Booksellers’ Association’s Hall of Honor in 1995 and received theGold Medallion Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Her works include “A Christmas Longing,” “Life and Death Dilemma,” “When God Weeps” and “The God I Love.” Plus, her glossy pamphlets published Rose Publishing and Aspire Press help those seeking to know how to handle unanswered prayer, suffering, depression, frustration, anger, and more.
