The award winning story of a young woman who triumphed over devastating odds to touch countless lives the world over with the healing message of christ in a split second on a hot july afternoon a diving accident transformed the life of joni eareckson tada forever. A diving accident in 1967 left joni eareckson tada a quadriplegic in a wheelchair today she is an internationally known mouth artist a talented vocalist a radio host an author of 17 books and an advocate for disabled persons worldwide in this audio story youll meet joni and hear how she struggled to accept gods design in her paralysis. More than fifty years ago at age seventeen joni was an energetic athletic teenager full of promise and hope one afternoon she headed out for a dip in the chesapeake bay with her sister spying a wooden raft anchored nearby joni took a headlong dive from the raft into very shallow water that moment changed the rest of her life