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Where is Christ in our disability and chronic pain?

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For those living with disability and chronic pain - and those trying to understand what we are experiencing. You will *never* see a more informative and inspiring video than this.

Joni Earekson Tada has been a quadrapelegic for more than 60 years. She has beaten breast cancer twice, got Covid, developed spinal injury and other infirmities, and most challenging of all she has been in chronic pain for over 20 years. No meds can ease it.

Joni also is a very strong and vocal Christian. She gives God praise every chance she gets. She has a decades long world-wide ministry for Christ traveling and speaking, doing podcasts and videos. 'Joni And Friends' provides all kinds of assistance for those with disabilities as well - of all kinds and nature.

What is so wonderful about this vid is that she is gut level honest about the physical, emotional and spiritual struggle she endures.

Bottom line, you who feel alone in your struggle will see yourself in her, and you will receive the comfort that God knows it all too well, knows you to the infinite degree of your being, and is extending His hand to you to give you purpose in the midst of it all. *Nobody* has suffered like His Son Jesus. Trust Him to get you through and all the way to our Heavenly Home. God bless!

 
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