Best of 2022: Finding peace in the midnight moments with Joni Eareckson Tada
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
“God permits what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The ten words above have marked me from the very first time I heard Joni Eareckson Tada speak them. And today I want to re-share one of my favorite episodes of the year where Joni is sharing her heart behind these words.
Joni is an author, speaker, artist, and the most incredible example of loving Jesus in the hardest places that I’ve ever known. She suffers with quadriplegia, and, even so, has traveled the world sharing her hope in Jesus.
Joni very candidly talks to us about her accident and the words she prayed just months before it happened. We get a little insight into how she’s learned to love Jesus even when life’s midnight moments of despair come creeping in.
There’s literally no way for me to hype today’s show enough, so please, please take a minute and go listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | This is Cynthia Yannoff, and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.1 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk |
| 0:26.1 | the parenting road alone. Hey guys, welcome to Part of the Mess. I'm so glad you're joining |
| 0:33.6 | us today. It is a few days before Christmas. And I know Christmas is so exciting and fun |
| 0:39.1 | and joyous and we celebrate all the things. I also know it's so hard for many of us. And so |
| 0:45.1 | people ask me all the time, what is your favorite podcast or who's your favorite guest this year? |
| 0:49.6 | And it's so hard to say because it's like picking your favorite child. We don't have a favorite |
| 0:53.7 | child or at least most days we don't have a favorite child. |
| 0:56.7 | And I don't have necessarily a favorite guest. |
| 0:59.2 | But I will say that Johnny Erickson Tata speaks to my soul every time she is on the show. |
| 1:04.8 | And she was on earlier this year and she spoke about those midnight moments, those times where we have angst and pain and fear and insecurity, |
| 1:13.7 | it all creeps in and we're laying in bed awake and wondering where's God in the middle of this. |
| 1:18.0 | And I can't help but think right now as we're going into Christmas, there's so much that maybe |
| 1:22.1 | we're stuffing down or trying to ignore so many emotions that are hard losses in our life, pain |
| 1:27.4 | in our life, and I think |
| 1:29.3 | right there in the midst of it is where we find God. And so I want us to have this word from |
| 1:33.8 | Johnny Erickson Tata again as we're going into Christmas, those places where it's hard, those places |
| 1:39.4 | where maybe you're not sleeping at night, hear what she has to say about suffering and pain |
| 1:44.0 | and finding God |
| 1:45.2 | in the midst of it. I think that's the ultimate hope we have in Jesus. And so I'm thrilled |
| 1:50.7 | to have her every single time. Get this amazing word today from Johnny Erickson Taunette. |
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