Jesus Revealed in Us

After Joni Eareckson Tada’s mother died, Joni thought about Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians where he described how our bodies are like “jars of clay” that hold the treasure of Christ’s presence. She mused about a twenty-first century equivalent to describe our earthly bodies—a cardboard box. She knew her mother’s “box” with its worn-out corners and bends was now empty but, she reflected, it was a box they’d treasured, “the