{"id":2072,"date":"2023-09-25T18:05:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/joni-eareckson-tada-discharged-from-hospital-following-16-day-admission\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:05:58","slug":"joni-eareckson-tada-discharged-from-hospital-following-16-day-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/joni-eareckson-tada-discharged-from-hospital-following-16-day-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Eareckson Tada Discharged from Hospital Following 16-Day Admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline has-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-tools\"><a href=\"#cp-talk\" class=\"has-number talk-cp-255694\" data-scrollto=\".viafoura\" aria-label=\"Go to comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/chat-rect.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><span class=\"number\"\/><\/a><a href=\"\" class=\"js-share\" aria-label=\"Share\" id=\"share-btn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/share-outline.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"760\" height=\"507\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/13\/67\/136764_w_760_507.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/13\/67\/136764_w_760_507.jpeg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" width=\"760\" height=\"507\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">Joni Eareckson Tada speaks at Getty Music Worship Conference: Sing! 2019 in Nashville.<\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Jersey Road PR\/Gareth Russell<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bible teacher, bestselling author and disabilities advocate Joni Eareckson Tada has been released from the hospital after a 16-day stay due to double pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like many of the people we serve who struggle with constant health challenges, I can say with them, &#8216;God rescued me!&#8217; After 16 days in the hospital struggling with double pneumonia, I am home, happy, healing, and resting,&#8221; the 73-year-old shared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=24209435282003667&amp;set=a.804843159556209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media post<\/a> last week featuring a photo of her and her husband, Ken, outside the hospital. &#8220;The hospital provided oxygen for me, but it&#8217;s only temporary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She thanked her husband and friends for all they did to care for her, saying they &#8220;made sure I rested.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At night, the promise from God in Isaiah 43:1-2 was such a great source of comfort: &#8216;Do not be afraid, for you are mine. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown,'&#8221; She said. &#8220;Yes, Jesus was with me through every scan, x-ray, blood draw, and breathing treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FJoniEarecksonTada%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02WA7SZt8XMjagCmpS1TFA6cb6x2aPxGiojZ9GjEo62hzAGa6T6gr3sddBxk1fBexl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"712\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tada, who heads Joni and Friends, an organization &#8220;accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community,&#8221; said the experience reminded her of how critical it is to &#8220;share the salvation message of Jesus with the families we serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s why we do what we do at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joniandfriends.idc?__tn__=-%5DK*F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joni and Friends<\/a>, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier than to be on the frontlines with you and every friend of the ministry,&#8221; she wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tada was paralyzed after a diving accident in 1967 and has since used her platform to advocate for those with disabilities. Her book detailing her experience, <em>Joni<\/em>, has been translated into over 30 languages and made into a feature film.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to living with quadriplegia, Tada has battled cancer twice and, recently, COVID-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/books\/joni-eareckson-tada-reflects-on-how-god-has-used-her-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 interview <\/a>with The Christian Post, the speaker and author revealed that resting in God&#8217;s sovereignty, come what may is what enables her to have &#8220;profound, unshakable gladness&#8221; in the face of &#8220;horrible hardships and jaw-biting pain.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s sovereignty &#8220;isn&#8217;t some doctrinal, otherworldly, theological ivory tower concept that academics talk about, but you&#8217;d never really know how to put into practice,&#8221; she said, but a &#8220;trust in His Word; He can be trusted because He&#8217;s not going anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t say that if that pain were happening perchance, or if it were some fluke, or if it was a cosmic roll of the dice. How can I be so confident, to speak calmly into my suffering, the confidence in God&#8217;s Word were it not for His sovereignty?&#8221; Tada said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I&#8217;m in pain, which is often, especially at night in bed when I can&#8217;t sleep \u2026 I talk to my pain and I say, &#8216;You&#8217;re not going to make me anxious, pain. You&#8217;re not going to make me fearful. I&#8217;m going to walk into you. I&#8217;m going to breathe, calmly, serenely. I&#8217;m going to enter you, pain, as though I were Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego entering the fiery furnace, and I&#8217;m going to find Jesus, the Son of God, walking in the middle of the fire with me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tada cited <a href=\"https:\/\/bibleportal.com\/verse-topic?v=2+Corinthians+6%3A10&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Corinthians 6:10<\/a>: &#8220;We are to be sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems to me, only in the Christian experience can we know both joy and sorrow at the same time; it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s on a continuum, and they happen simultaneously,&#8221; she reflected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the West, even we Christians, we don&#8217;t know what to do with suffering and pain. We try to drug it, medicate it, escape it, divorce it. If it&#8217;s a child with a disability, we institutionalize it. We do everything but learn how to live with it. And I don&#8217;t mean live with it begrudgingly, but live with it confident that a sovereign God has you in the midst of this for a good reason. And usually, most of those reasons are that we might cast ourselves wholly and completely on Christ Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p>Leah M. Klett is a reporter for The Christian Post. 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