Page 260 of the unfolding is the story of Johnny Erickson Tata.

Honestly, what I thought was the ruin of my life, breaking my neck, was actually the beginning of God's greatest use of my life.

And he chose the thing that I despised to bring him most glory.

To me, that's amazing.

God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time.

He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

Hey, this is Meredith Foster.

When most of us think about suffering, we think of it as something to escape, a detour we never wanted.

That's exactly how Johnny Erickson Tata felt when at 17 years old, she dove into the Chesapeake Bay and broke her neck. Paralyzed from the shoulders down,

she begged God to let her die. She couldn't imagine how anything good could come from her pain.

But over time, something unexpected happened. In that place of despair, Johnny began to sense that God

hadn't abandoned her. He was doing something deeper. Her suffering

became the very place where she met him. Today, after more than five decades in a wheelchair,

Johnny says she wouldn't trade it for anything because it's where she's learned who God really is.

She's come to believe that God sometimes allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves

and that no suffering is wasted in his hands.

Well, I know that you're interested in stories, and I often think my story began when I broke my neck, but no, the chapter was written

when I was a little girl learning hymns. My father and mother took me and my three sisters off

into the beach and we were just saying hymns. We'd quote the Bible. My dad would quote the Bible.

We would, I don't know.

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