tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post3724485702353383565..comments2023-10-08T07:15:19.060-04:00Comments on One Day At A Time: Hope MisplacedMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716971493153383770noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-53639158143503792562012-03-11T04:13:18.475-04:002012-03-11T04:13:18.475-04:00I’ve been following and enjoying your blog for a w...I’ve been following and enjoying your blog for a while now and would like to invite you to visit and perhaps follow me back. Sorry I took so long for the invitationCovnitkepr1https://www.blogger.com/profile/14155059748601952927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259928642995486244.post-82335684723254579202011-12-26T11:21:46.095-05:002011-12-26T11:21:46.095-05:00"Someone might ask, “Have you always had such..."Someone might ask, “Have you always had such contentment, Joni?” And I would have to answer no. I well remember the first Christmas I got out of the hospital, my first visit home since the accident. Depressed and frightened, I remember going to church with my family on Christmas Eve. One particular carol stands out in my mind. I remember singing, with tears falling from my eyes:<br /><br />Hail the heav’n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Son of Righteousness! Light and life to all He brings, risen with healing in His wings.<br /><br />When we got to that third verse of “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” I thought, Im sure this Christmas season I’ll get up out of my wheelchair-risen with healing in His wings!<br /><br />Little did I know (and I don’t know if I would have understood even if you had explained it to me) that in due time, God would heal me-but on a level I would have never dreamed.<br /><br />Just two years later, on another Christmas, I found the very peace and contentment that had eluded me. I also found joy, simply because I had embraced His will for my life.<br /><br />And what is His will?<br /><br />That you and I be in the best position, the best place, the timeliest circumstance in which God can be glorified the most.<br /><br />For me, that place just happens to be a wheelchair.<br /><br />That happens to be my place of healing."<br /><br />Joni Eareckson Tada, A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God’s Sovereignty, Kindle Location 469-77.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com