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Joni by joni eareckson6/12/2023 As much as we might want to make Joni a saint (a danger mentioned in this book) and put Ken on a pedestal for marrying a woman with such a profound disability, their honesty won't allow it. Rejoicing with them as God taught them new things, wondering with them what His purposes were. This approach was very effective I found myself tearing up at certain passages, getting a lump in my throat, suffering with them as I read about their struggles. What would it be like to be married to someone who cannot move anything below the neck? The daily grind for non-impaired people can be hard enough, but how does one cope with the daily grind of quadriplegia? How do the grooves of marriage run when all the things we take for granted are complicated and intensified by disability? Unlike Joni's other books, this is told in the third person - our perspective as outsiders peering over their shoulders into their real lives. Joni and Ken: An Untold Love Story is the chronicle of their marriage - its sweet joys, painful trials, and deep complexities. What is less well known are the details of her marriage to Ken Tada, that handsome "island guy" she noticed in church one Sunday some thirty-plus years ago. Joni Eareckson Tada is well known as the Christian quadriplegic whose ministry, Joni and Friends, ministers the gospel to people with disabilities around the world.
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