Joni is Joni Eareckson Tada’s autobiography, chronicling her journey as a quadriplegic, from the first moments after her diving accident as a seventeen year old, to her adult years afterward. Tada shares candidly about her struggles to find life’s meaning as she, a once active youth, faced life without the use of her legs and hands. She shares about the depression and grief that surrounded her as she realized that she would never regain full use of her limbs as she had hoped. Tada takes the reader along her journey of trust in the Lord, gently showing them that even when trials lie in our path, God still has a good plan. Perhaps that plan is not one that we would ever have chosen, but one that is for our greatest good and his glory.
One of the things that impacted me as I read Joni was that once she surrendered her story to the Lord, he used her trial to encourage others in ways that she never could have guessed, and she began to have a ministry to others with similar stories.
Moral Value: 5/5
Artistic Value: 5/5
Overall Value: 5/5
Edifying?: Yes!
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