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 non and find new hope for thriving in-between.
When Faith Meets Pain and Suffering Joni Eareckson Tada wrote this book in the midst of pain and suffering, from the trenches. Having prayed for healing, the answer was “no” or “not yet.” How do you deal with that in your Christian life? How do you accept pain and suffering when you know God desires your health and wholeness? This book is all about that struggle with pain, suffering, and loving God through it. It is written with maturity, with experience, and with love.The book is divided into ten chapters, that ask questions like: “what benefit is there to my pain?” and “how can I go on like this?”Tada reaches into her almost forty years of experience as a quadraplegic to answer these questions, even in the midst of her own questioning.As someone with a rare, treatable but incurable endocrine disease, I found this book to be of tremendous benefit. These are questions I have often struggled with, and her perspective, biblical insight and seasoned maturity brought a fresh breath of…
A Serious, Hopeful Look at the Mysteries of Suffering & Divine Sovereignty in the Midst of Chronic Pain Although Joni has written about suffering in previous books such as A Step Further and When God Weeps, she wrote this book to revisit the topic after experiencing two years of unrelenting chronic pain that still continues. Almost 60 years old, and a quadriplegic for 43 of them, this book chronicles a new chapter in her life. It is the fruit of Christian maturity as well as careful biblical reflection and takes a very practical, God-glorifying approach. The title, A Place of Healing, refers not only to “our wonderfully sovereign God” as our place of healing (page 12), but also to her wheelchair (page 52) as her place of inner growth and healing where God can be glorified the most.One is introduced to suffering as an aspect of spiritual warfare in chapter 1. Chapter 2 addresses the real question regarding God and healing which is not whether God can heal but whether or not he will heal all those who truly come to him in faith. In chapter 3 one is introduced to Canadian…