A Lifetime of Wisdom: Unabridged: Embracing the Way God Heals You: Filled with God's Priceless Rubies (A Lifetime of Wisdom: Embracing the Way God Heals You)

Tada, Joni Eareckson

ISBN 10: 031028953X ISBN 13: 9780310289531

Publisher: Zondervan, 2009

Synopsis

The author recalls the bitterness and despair she felt after the diving accident that left her paralyzed, and relates how God changed her and gave her the wisdom to live her life victoriously in spite of the challenges she faced.

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From the Back Cover:

It's not what I lost. It's what I've found.

I was only seventeen, just a girl, when God asked me for everything I had … my health, my hopes, my independence, my dreams, my freedom, and my mobility. He took it all. I was so angry with Him that I tried to push Him away. God relentlessly held me more closely.

Looking back, forty years later, I understand that God has changed and healed me--my heart and my mind--in the most unexpected ways, giving me rubies of His wisdom about an unbending faith and an experience of His mercy I can now tell you about.

Was it a fair exchange, my freedom and no wheelchair for the rubies of wisdom I've been given? Absolutely. In this I have learned at the feet of the Lord Jesus, embracing the way that God heals us, even when we rage at Him in anger, fear, and despair.

This book is not about what I lost in that diving accident so long ago. It's about the wisdom He's given me to live life victoriously in the face of disappointments and challenges that we all face.

Synopsis:

'Thank you, God, for this chair!' Not the words you'd expect from a woman who has spent 40 years as a quadriplegic following a tragic diving accident at 17. But it is the perspective of a woman who has suffered heartbreaking losses ...and incomparable gains. Chief among those gains have been the insights she's gained into the wisdom and nature of God - learned and refined through seasons of difficulty and trial. In one sense, that wisdom did cost Joni all she had: her hopes, her dreams, her independence, her health, her freedom, and mobility. In the early years, it seemed a price much too high to pay. But through 4 decades Joni's moved from enduring her circumstances to finding God's joy in them. And now she has written a book that shares the heavenly wisdom and perspective she's learned. There have been many books written about tragedy and struggle, of pain and bitterness, but in this book, Joni chooses to dwell not on what she has lost but on what she has found.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 031028953X
• ISBN 13: 9780310289531
• Binding: Audio CD