March 31, 2019
Recently, I listened to a wonderful interview with Joni Earekson Tada. She has earned the right to speak about suffering. For fifty years, she has been paralyzed because of a diving accident at age 17. (In the early days after this, she wanted to take her own life, but did not have enough mobility to do so.)
When Joni began to see how she could help others, she began a worldwide ministry call Joni and Friends which provides assistive devices and other support to those with disabilities.)
She has also had cancer twice in recent years. And she lives with chronic pain – a mystery to all because she has no other feeling from her chest down to her toes.
Other than her radiant joyful faith, I was most impressed by this comment from her:
We are all dying; so living with dignity is dying with dignity.