To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Character Check How has God used my weaknesses to further his ends?
In Business Terms I think life is supposed to be difficult. A lot of life is grabbing your leg by the calf, jerking it out of the earth, putting it down in front of you, and going onward.
With my disability, some days are easier than others. But for me, life is always difficult. These are issues I must face every single morning.
Every morning somebody has to give me a bath in bed, dress me, lift me into a wheelchair, comb my hair, brush my teeth, fix my breakfast, cut up my food, and feed me.
When it comes to the day-to-day routines of dealing with the paralysis, at worst, it’s depressing; at best, it’s boring. I can’t live with those flat facts. I have to turn them, by God’s grace, into something that has meaning and purpose.
—Joni Eareckson Tada
Something to Think About He who can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good. – Yiddish proverb
