Epilogue
Epilogue
Months have passed since I penned my final word on the previous page, and I cannot let you close this book without an update: I’m holding my breath, hoping I’m not jumping the gun when I say that I’m now enjoying many more good days than bad.
Maybe it’s because I’m sitting differently in my wheelchair … or wearing my corset higher … or maybe looser. Could it be a change in diet? Drinking more fluids? I breathe more deeply and certainly stretch more often. Or perhaps it’s because I’m no longer on that heavy-duty pain medication—you know, the one that has side effects worse than the remedy?
Whatever the reason, I’m waking each morning, blessing God for another day … and closing my eyes at night, grateful that I still have a role to play in Christ’s kingdom. I’ve resumed a somewhat normal travel schedule, and even have strength enough to stay sitting up all day.
I have a feeling it’s because of your prayers—every day my soul seems to vibrate with the repercussions of people’s prayers. I trust that the Lord will enable me to keep moving forward in this wheelchair, and if you’d like to track alongside, I invite you to visit “Joni’s Corner” at JoniAndFriends.org. There you will find the latest updates as well as a bounty of praise reports to our great and awesome God. And as far as moving into the future? For the remainder of the journey, I hold fast to a courageous and invigorating verse in Acts 20:24, and I invite you to do the same.
I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race
and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—
the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.