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A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty Kindle Edition

by Joni Eareckson-Tada (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In this eloquent account of her current struggle with physical pain, Joni Eareckson Tada offers her perspective on divine healing, God’s purposes, and what it means to live with joy.

Over four decades ago, a diving accident left Joni a quadriplegic. Today, she faces a new battle: unrelenting pain. The ongoing urgency of this season in her life has caused Joni to return to foundational questions about suffering and God’s will.

A Place of Healing is not an ivory-tower treatise on suffering. It’s an intimate look into the life of a mature woman of God. Whether readers are enduring physical pain, financial loss, or relational grief, Joni invites them to process their suffering with her. Together, they will navigate the distance between God’s magnificent yes and heartbreaking no—and find new hope for thriving in-between.

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"Sometimes a book read by the author can be a hit-or-miss listening experience. Even though an author may know how she meant something to be heard, she herself may not know how to deliver it that way. But this is not the case with Joni Eareckson Tada. She has a bright, clear, direct, and often-cheerful way of speaking that is always appropriate to the context. Tada, a quadriplegic, at one point calls her wheelchair 'a place of healing.' She explains this extraordinary statement with a conviction that says: This is what faith sounds like. Her confident way of expressing herself draws the listener to the Lord she loves."

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Over four decades ago, a diving accident left Joni Eareckson Tada a quadriplegic. Since that time, she has become a beloved writer and speaker to millions. But today, Joni faces a new battle: chronic, unrelenting pain. As she writes,

Just as I said to God years ago when I was first injured, I find myself praying, Lord, I can’t live like this for the rest of my life! This ongoing urgency has forced me to look back on familiar scriptures and examine them from new angles. Does God miraculously intervene in the lives of all who pray for release from migraine headaches, multiple sclerosis, cancer—or, in my case, chronic pain?

And if not, why not?

Here Joni invites you to walk with her through an intense and baffling season of her life. Her words offer not a bundle of ivory-tower theological conclusions but intimate insight from a woman on a journey—a woman who believes in healing from a God who chooses when that healing will come.
 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005MT8U3S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ David C Cook; New edition (September 1, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 341 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
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Joni Eareckson Tada, Founder and CEO of Joni and Friends, is an international advocate for people with disabilities. A diving accident in 1967 left Joni with permanent quadriplegia. After rehabilitation she emerged with new skills and fresh determination to help others in similar situations. She founded Joni and Friends in 1979 to minister to people living with disability.

For over 40 years Joni and Friends has served thousands of families navigating disability, and has delivered over 200,000 wheelchairs and Bibles to individuals with disabilities in developing nations. Joni has survived breast cancer twice and lives with chronic pain and weakening lungs. By God’s grace Joni perseveres, keeping an active schedule, including radio recording, writing, and providing leadership and encouragement to the Joni and Friends staff.

Joni and her husband Ken reside in Calabasas, California.

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Luella
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a good book
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024
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I learned so much by reading this book. I was hesitant to read this when I learned it was about chronic pain. Joni writes it in such a way that I never lost the absolute comfort of seeing and trusting God's sovreignty and love for his child through each moment of pain. Will read again. Such a magnificent testimony to God's love and presence in our lives against those things that shout it's a lie.
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Holly Weiss
5.0 out of 5 stars Profound Personal Testimony to God's Comfort
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2011
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Why does God allow pain? Is God concerned with suffering and involved in it? Plato, C.S. Lewis, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Henri Nouwen, the apostle Paul and others have all addressed these age-old questions.

Instead of focusing on how God is involved in the problem of pain, Joni Eareckson Tada chooses instead in her book, A Place of Healing, to examine how God can use pain to draw her closer to Himself and lift her above her human sufferings.

Joni, left a quadriplegic from a diving accident four decades ago, is the author of over fifty books and founder of Joni and Friends, an organization devoted to accelerating Christian outreach among those with disabilities. She will serve as the Honorary Chairman of the 2011 National Day of Prayer, held on the First Thursday of May. In addition to coping with the struggles of living from a wheelchair, Joni now has new challenges. She is assaulted with unrelenting, chronic pain and has been diagnosed with cancer.

Her reactions? "Suffering may be a part of God's...mysterious plan, but God's intention is always to demonstrate compassion and unfailing love." Joni illustrates over and over in her book how powerfully God's love touches her at her deepest point of need.

Her chapter headings ask difficult questions:

* What Benefit is there to My Pain?
* How Can I Go On Like This?
* How Can I Bring Him Glory?
* How Do I Regain My Perspective?

This devout, genuine woman answers each question with tender, heartfelt examples from her walk in faith. Suffering can make us bitter or compassionate. Suffering can drive us away from God or make us fly into His arms. A Place of Healing is her testament to the restorative power of loving, committed service to God, no matter what our circumstances. She rejoices in the fact that God had plans for her life much wider, higher and more profound than she ever could imagine. Her last chapter entitled, "Thank you, God, for this Wheelchair" demonstrates that because of her circumstances, not in spite of them, she is happier as a child of God than she ever dreamed possible.

Do you have a friend or relative struggling with grief, financial loss, health issues or physical pain?
Give them a copy of A Place of Healing. May they find comfort in the profound testimony of someone who treads where they walk, albeit, in a wheelchair.

Reviewed by Holly Weiss, author of Crestmont
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Ana
5.0 out of 5 stars A Total Rethink About Suffering
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013
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A Place of Healing is a transparent book that reveals Joni’s questioning about her own chronic pain, quadriplegia, and what she believes about God. Very well written, it begins with a zealous young man telling her she didn’t have enough faith for God to heal her, the time she went to a faith healer’s meeting, and so many things that she has learned over the more than forty-five years since she was paralyzed. Joni addresses God’s sovereign will, why He allows suffering, the good that comes through weakness, and the very real day-to-day struggles she faces. She talks about contentment and joy along with pain and needing people to help her with almost everything. She tells some hilarious stories, like the time she traveled with a blind friend—just the two of them—on a plane.

Should we question God? Or should we question just enough to get answers? Are there always answers—or do we move ahead in the faith that the Lord has a purpose in every situation, be it physical suffering or emotional? When we belong to Jesus, God has a plan, a purpose.

Joni knows that God has used her in a special way because she is a quadriplegic. She would never have had the opportunities to share the gospel without the special platform she has because of the grace He has given her in the midst of her suffering. She has purpose and a reason to get up and go to work each day.

A Place of Healing ends with a few chapters with stories about people who have been blessed through the ministry of Joni and Friends. They are absolutely wonderful stories of how God put two unlikely people together to meet a special need. Sometimes, it’s a fitted wheelchair . . . or encouragement.

I loved this book and would especially recommend it to people experiencing any kind of trial. It might change your perspective.
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Matane
5.0 out of 5 stars Comforting book
Reviewed in Canada on March 21, 2022
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I find the book comforting for those like me, who hate life and hate God for giving us life. The book is there to praise God and show how He is all purposeful. I don't believe that but even though I cried and felt a lot of anger reading the book, I was also relieved to get my emotions out.
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Claude Oriot
5.0 out of 5 stars At the right time
Reviewed in France on October 31, 2015
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This came to me as I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and got a real fright at the thought of not being able to use my hands. Well, since, I have started treatment, and I have good days as well as bad days, but mostly I have learnt to have grateful days every day!! An excellent encourager when one sees only the dark and not the light at the end of the tunnel.
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R. Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars You need to read this book; if not today, you will certainly need it in one of your tomorrows.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2013
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In many ways Joni Eareckson's book serves as an extended illustration to the theology of Henry Frost whose book, "Miraculous Healing", she constantly recommends. Frost was a friend and contemporary of Hudson Taylor and his book comes highly recommended by a broad spectrum of evangelical response to the mystery of healing and the gospel. (M Lloyd Jones being one of that number). "Miraculous Healing", by Henry W Frost, provides the patient theology of issues of healing and Joni's "A Place of Healing" works out the hypothesis, but thrillingly. Joni Eareckson is not "under siege" in her testimony but boldly embraces the current will of God as she perceives it.

The perspective of each of these books comes from writers who believe that "God still heals today" and so avoids the extreme position of the cessationists. But at the same time both books avoid the dogmatic theology of the "God's will is that you be healed now" theology.

There is a beautiful and sane balance in this testimony, and 'testimony' is what we encounter in Joni's book. This testimony does not come from the ivory tower of a study but from the fog of war experienced in the midst of the battle. You need to read this book; if not today, you will certainly need it in one of your tomorrows. Buy it and share it and enjoy the thrilling testimony of a woman who has found the grace to say "though he slay me, yet will I trust him."
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Kay Pat
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on August 23, 2015
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Excellent as are all Joni's books; not afraid to deal with the hard issues and very scripturally sound
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3bun
5.0 out of 5 stars Someone recommended this book while we were both sharing from our ...
Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2015
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Someone recommended this book while we were both sharing from our cronic sciatic pain. I was 2 months post surgery for a herniated disc and still having the nerve pain. When i started reading the first few pages i realized that what i had was nothibg comparing to what other people go through. I wish i had read this book before the surgery when i was hooked on pain killers fighting depression. I will continue to recommend this book to everyone especially those dealing with some sort of pain in their body. Definitely a must read. I love how it deals with the subject of healing hearing it from a lady who is moree satisfied with the grace of God and with Christ's presence in her life than anything else.
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