Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Lessons from a wheelchair

Joni Eareckson Tada has always been an inspiration to me. I first read her book “Joni” while I was in my 20’s and learned from her descriptions of daily life struggles when she became a paraplegic at age 17. It made a lasting impact on me. I’ve had the privilege of hearing Joni speak numerous times and meeting with her individually. She is always warm and so real that she makes her audiences and those she meets forget she is confined to a wheelchair. Her focus engages whoever is listening and makes them feel as though she has known them for years.

The lessons Joni had to learn after her life altering accident are well documented in her early books, and now I find myself having to learn some of those same lessons as I adjust to an ankle injury which required surgery on Christmas Eve.

Talk about life stopping while you adjust to wheelchairs, walkers, port-a-potties, sponge bathing, getting comfortable and spot exercising. This phase of my life will pass, but here I sit propping up my leg in a wheelchair with the realization that I have 10 more weeks of the same without driving or walking (yikes!)

I am thankful for all my body parts that do work, for family and friends that write, call, and come over, and most of all for God who through all of this is teaching me much. Needless to say, much has been learned and much more will be.

Joni has an organization called Joni and Friends which For Kids Only has given grant funding 4 times over the last 5 years. Click here for more information about Joni and Friends and to find out why we are pleased to partner with them. Please check out our other Special Needs resources in our bookstore.