by Bruce Brady @BDBrady007
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Recently I found myself encouraged in an unexpected way when my wife and I drove to the Billy Graham Library to
meet and listen to an amazing woman. Her name is Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson Tada.
If you’ve not heard of her, she’s an author of over 50 books,
a blogger, and an excellent artist whose paintings and drawings are in high
demand. But that’s not all, Joni is a public speaker, and an international
advocate for disabled people. She’s served on the National Council on
Disability and the Disability Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department. She’s
the founder of “Joni and Friends,” an organization that encourages physically
handicapped people all over the world, and supplies them with free wheelchairs.
She’s also recorded a song for a that was nominated for an
Academy Award. This recording tested her physical limitations. While singing,
her husband had to press on her diaphragm so she could hit and hold the high
notes.
But these aren’t the reasons I’m so impressed by her. What
amazes me is that she has done all this for forty-seven years as a quadriplegic
with fifty percent of normal adult lung capacity.
