Hey everybody welcome to the mere Christians podcast I'm Jordan Rayner.

How does the gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

Those of us who aren't pastors or donor-support of missionaries,

but who work as managers and painters and actuaries.

That's the question we explore every week.

And today I'm posing it to the one and only Johnny Ericsson Tata.

Since being paralyzed at the age of 17 in a diving accident,

Johnny has spent her life in service of others with disabilities.

She served at the pleasure of Presidents Reagan and George

H.W. Bush and as an advisor to Condoleezza Rice on the Disability Advisory Committee at the United

States State Department. but perhaps most famously, she's

the woman who paints masterpieces with her mouth. She's a legend and trust me,

she exceeded expectations in this interview.

Johnny and I recently sat down to talk about the first three things she plans to do

when heaven comes to earth,

how everything we do in this life

either increases or decreases

our capacity for leadership on the new earth,

and I loved her perspective on how our work can be quote

ingredients in God's happiness. You're in for such a tree as you listen to this episode with my new friend Johnny Ericsson.

Johnny Ericsson Tata, welcome to the podcast.

Good to be with you, Jordan, and of course all of our friends listening all over the world. I love that Jordan.

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