Hope...the Best of Things
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If hope is scarce in your life, this special booklet will draw you-toward a fresh perspective on suffering, true scriptural encouragement, and this beloved author's hard-won insights about the goodness of God.
In her life's journey Joni has learned to meet suffering on God's terms. She has learned that joy is for real. And most of all, she has learned that hope is the best of things when we give it a chance. This book powerfully communicates all these truths from someone who has lived them, so that you can live them too, no matter what you're going through.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni Eareckson Tada is CEO of Joni and Friends, a global ministry that serves the practical and spiritual needs of people with disabilities. She is also an artist and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Joni; A Place of Healing; and When God Weeps. Joni and her husband, Ken, reside in Calabasas, California.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"Oh, God, please may I borrow your smile?" Thank you, Joni, for writing this book and for speaking hope into my faith-walk. I am smiling again :))
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Hope...the Best of Things - Joni Eareckson Tada
HOPE... the Best of Things
10Hope. . . the Best of Things
Copyright © 2008 by Joni Eareckson Tada
This book was formerly part of Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, copyright 2006 by Desiring God Ministries, originally published under the title
"Hope. . . the Best of Things."
Published by Crossway Books
a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers
1300 Crescent Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.
Cover design: Amy Bristow
Cover art: Joni Eareckson Tada
First printing: 2007
Printed in the United States of America
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
PDF ISBN 978-1-4335-0434-1
Mobipocket ISBN 978-1-4335-0435-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tada, Joni Eareckson.
Hope—the best of things / Joni Eareckson Tada.
p. cm.
Originally published as part of Suffering and the sovereignty of God, © 2006
ISBN 978-1-4335-0219-4 (tpb)
1. Tada, Joni Eareckson. 2. Hope—Religious aspects—Christianity.
3. Suffering—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title.
BV4638.T34 2008
241'.4—dc22
2007050383
VP 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08
14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For
Carmen Thompson
. . . WHOSE HOPE IS THE LORD
Contents
Preface
1 Hope Is Hard to Come By
2 Meeting Suffering and Joy on God’s Terms
3 Hope Is Contagious
4 Misery May Love Company but Joy Craves a Crowd
Epilogue
Preface
If you have picked up this booklet, it’s safe to say you are interested in hope—understanding it, finding it, and resting in it. Ours is