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KIM LAWTON<\/strong>, correspondent: Joni Eareckson Tada is a woman of many talents. She\u2019s a bestselling author, an acclaimed artist, and an internationally known advocate for people with disabilities. Paralyzed for more than 40 years, Tada is one of the longest living quadriplegics on record. She endures chronic pain, and just a few months ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Tada says it\u2019s her faith that keeps her going.<\/p>\n

JONI EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: Boy, when Jesus said in this world you will have trouble, he wasn\u2019t kidding. In this world there will be trouble. Perhaps the gift of this cancer and pain and quadriplegia is that it forces me to recognize my desperate, desperate need of God, and that is a good thing.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: Tada was an active, athletic teenager. Then, at the age of 17, she broke her neck in a diving accident in the Chesapeake Bay. Her spinal chord was severed, and she became paralyzed from the shoulders down. She has limited arm motion but can\u2019t use her hands or her legs. Immediately after the accident, she was angry and depressed and begged friends to help her commit suicide. Ultimately, she says she found peace when she committed her life to God.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: God is that big, and he\u2019s that good, and his grace is that sufficient.<\/p>\n

\"post03-joni\"LAWTON<\/strong>: Tada wanted to help others with disabilities and in 1979 began a ministry called Joni and Friends, offering support to disabled people and their families.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: Disabilities are on the rise. Autism, Alzheimer\u2019s\u2014there\u2019s not a cul-de-sac in America that\u2019s not impacted somehow with a family who has a child or an elderly parent with a disability.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: Because of her efforts, Tada was appointed to the National Council on Disability. She worked for passage of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, which sought to make America more accessible. But she feels more is still needed.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: You can provide for the curb cuts, provide for the elevators and the ramps and the Braille and the TTY machines, but it\u2019s going to require a change of heart in our society.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: Joni and Friends provides resources to help local churches reach out to people with special needs and their families. The goal is to help disabled people find dignity and purpose in their lives. The ministry holds family retreats around the country and has begun special sessions called \u201cWounded Warrior Getaways\u201d for armed service members injured in combat and their families.<\/p>\n

\"post04-joni\"Joni\u2019s husband, Ken, knows all too well the toll disabilities can take on a family. He and Joni married in 1982 and have become mentors for other couples living with disabilities. Now retired from teaching school, Ken helps Joni with the international component of their ministry, called Wheels for the World, which provides wheelchairs and walkers to disabled people in poor countries.<\/p>\n

KEN TADA<\/strong>: To give the gift of mobility to someone who has never walked before and to watch how it not only changes that person\u2019s life, but the whole family\u2014that\u2019s been huge.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: In one ministry project, prisoners at a California penitentiary make special pediatric wheelchairs that Joni and Friends distribute around the world.<\/p>\n

Tada herself has become a living testimony that a disability doesn\u2019t have to be, in her words, \u201cthe end of the world.\u201d She has told her personal story countless times in speaking engagements and through the more than 35 books that she has written, including her newest one, A Place of Healing<\/em>. Her autobiography called Joni has been translated into more than 20 languages, and in 1980 Billy Graham\u2019s Worldwide Pictures turned it into a feature film.<\/p>\n

\"post05-joni\"Despite the wheelchair\u2014in fact, because of it\u2014Tada has been all over the world, and she\u2019s learned how to compensate for the paralysis. Tada taught herself how to draw and paint using her mouth. Music and art, she says, give her a vibrant creative and spiritual outlet.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: Yeah, I do many things\u2014mostly family retreats, working at Joni and Friends for others, but boy, my artwork and my music is something that comforts my own soul, that encourages my own soul. That\u2019s a blessing. Since I\u2019m dealing with more pain I work more now with pencil rather than brushes. Brushes are just a little too heavy. Pencils are lighter.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: Tada is open about her struggles. Just getting out of bed in the morning is a two-hour ordeal. A series of friends come in and help get her ready for the day.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: And there are many days, honestly, when I can hear my girlfriends come into the front door, and they\u2019re running water for coffee in the kitchen. I know they\u2019re going to be in my bedroom in a few minutes with a happy hello, and I just don\u2019t have the strength to welcome them, and so while they\u2019re still in the kitchen I\u2019m praying oh, God, I have no strength for this day, but you do.<\/p>\n

\"post09-joni\"LAWTON<\/strong>: Tada talks often about the reality of suffering\u2014a difficult message in what she calls America\u2019s culture of comfort.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: We want to erase suffering out of the dictionary. We want to eradicate it, avoid it, give it ibuprofen, institutionalize is, divorce it, surgically exorcise it, do anything but live with it.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: Even after all these years in the wheelchair, she says some fellow evangelicals still tell her if she had more faith God would heal her.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: But sometimes healing doesn\u2019t come, and you\u2019ve got to live with it, and when you do you really do learn who you are. God uses suffering. He lobs it like a hand grenade and blows to smithereens these notions we have about our self and who we think we are. Blows it to smithereens until we are left raw, naked, and we have to let suffering do its work.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: These days it seems like there is a lot of that work. After breast cancer surgery, Tada is undergoing chemotherapy, which has siphoned off much of her trademark vitality.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: It is very hard to go on. I mean privately I\u2019ve wondered, gee, Lord, is this cancer my ticket to heaven? Because I sure am tired of sitting in a wheelchair, and my body is aching, and I\u2019m so weary. Could this be my ticket to heaven?<\/p>\n

\"post08-joni\"LAWTON<\/strong>: Her motivation for persevering, she says, is all the people she\u2019s able to help.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: I need a reason to get up in the morning, and my big reason is to help other families like mine, other people with disabilities, other special needs moms and dads, to encourage them and strengthen them, to help them want to face life head on.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: She says she won\u2019t allow herself to spiral into doubt and despair.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: I\u2019m not going to go there. I\u2019m not going to go there. I went down that dark, grim path when I was a teenager and first broke my neck and wanted my girlfriends to bring in razors to slit my wrists or their mother\u2019s sleeping pills or whatever. I\u2019m not going to go down that path again. It\u2019s too horrible.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: Ken Tada says it\u2019s been hard watching his best friend go through so much.<\/p>\n

TADA<\/strong>: I\u2019ve often had several guy friends of mine who I\u2019ve said, you know, if I ever go to war I\u2019d want those guys in my foxhole. The first person I\u2019d want in my foxhole is my wife.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: He says the cancer has brought them closer to each other and to God.<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong> (singing): \u201cI surrender all, I surrender all.\u201d<\/p>\n

TADA<\/strong>: Yeah, we\u2019re depressed. If we didn\u2019t have God to turn to, I don\u2019t know. I mean, I certainly understand some of the other alternatives, but boy, I tell you, you know, you just kind of grab on with both hands and just hold on as tight as you can, because that\u2019s the only hope.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: I asked her a question she\u2019s been asked over and over again: How can you just keep believing in a God that would let all that happen?<\/p>\n

EARECKSON TADA<\/strong>: I pray a lot, and I sing a lot. I sing because I have to sing. There\u2019s something good about talking to yourself, reminding yourself of things you believed in the light but you\u2019re so quick to doubt in the darkness. And I\u2019ve seen too much of the light to not choose the Lord.<\/p>\n

LAWTON<\/strong>: I\u2019m Kim Lawton in Agoura Hills, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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