Illness may rob you from living a normal life, but you can turn it into an opportunity to write a one-of-a-kind story no one else in the world can have. This is what Jordan Richardson did with her own journey, making it one of hope, inspiration, and resiliency. Joining Haseena Shaheed-Jackson, she shares how she survived and thrived after undergoing a double lung transplant as an infant. Jordan talks about the important role of her Christian faith in making her life purposeful and meaningful despite the many challenges of her complicated situation. She also discusses her blog, prayer line, and soon-to-be-published devotional book.
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A Story Of Faith And Resiliency With Jordan Richardson
Undergoing A Lung Transplant
Hello, Miss Jordan Richardson. I’m so happy to have this time with you. I met you through a common friend, Amber. She told me so much about your story and I’m not going to tell your story because that’s for you to tell. It was such an amazing story for such a beautiful young woman. You have placed me in awe. I’m happy to have this opportunity to speak with you more about what’s going on in your life. I know one of the things that inspired me is that you are a lung transplant recipient and you’re survivor after 22 years. Give us a little bit of the backdrop and then we’ll move forward with our conversation here.
I want to first say thank you so much for having me. I’m so excited and honored to be here. My parents had two children. My brother Joshua was first and then eight years later, I was born. Both of us were born with what we now know years later to be a super rare genetic disease that they renders your lungs unable to function. My brother Joshua his presented at two weeks old. When I say presented, I mean his lungs crashed. They just stopped working. At two months old, he had his double lung transplant. Sadly, he had just one complication after another. He passed away when he was three years old.
My parents were pretty much essentially promised that would never happen again to another one of their children. Five years after that, they had me and surprised when I was two months old, I presented with the exact same thing. My lungs crashed as well. After spending the next three months on full life support, I’ve received a double lung transplant when I was five months old and that’s been all my life.
There’s two things I want to say about that. The first thing is, a lot of people tell me, “Once you had the surgery, that was so long ago. You’re healed from that, right? Now you’re completely normal.” What I want to say to that is having a transplant of any kind but especially lung transplants is not that one and done. It’s not that straightforward because ever since the transplant, I will be on immunosuppressants.
My immune system is going to be forcibly suppressed for the rest of my life. That means that I’d be very susceptible to all sorts of sicknesses or infections or diseases that a person with a normal working immune system either wouldn’t even know was there or they would know it was there but they’d say, “It’s okay I’ll get over it in a couple of days.” For me, I’m way more susceptible to those things. I also have to deal with the possibility that if I get one of those things from the simplest cold to COVID and everything in between. It could very easily end my life.
That’s the state in which I will always live because we have to keep my immune system lowered or it might recognize that the transplanted organ is foreign and it might start fighting against that. You do not want that to happen. The one thing I want to end on is that, when you have a lung transplant, they typically give you about a five year life expectancy after you’ve had the transplant. I just want to say that days ago, I celebrated my 22 year anniversary of the double lung transplant. Praise God.
Thank you so much for sharing that. I ask you this because you were toddler. Toddlers don’t understand all the things that you understand. When did you first become aware that, “I can’t do some of the things that some of my other friends are doing it?” Did you even have friends? How did you make friends? Tell us a little bit of that backdrop because that’s amazing. You had those transplants at, how old were you again?
I was five months old.
You have been in this cycle. Explain or elaborate on that. When did that you were different in terms of you couldn’t go out and do some of the things that other kids could do? How did you make friends?
When I was growing up, I honestly always thought of myself as a pretty normal kid. I always knew there were some things different with me. I had to go to doctor’s appointments that I didn’t know of anyone else that went to. I had different rules that no one else had to follow but I was a kid. I didn’t care. I was always happy, playful and enjoying life. When I got to be maybe 13 or 14, it was the first time I realized the seriousness of my actual health, my actual lung function like, “This is something that happened. This is something that I need to be careful about. This is a part of me.”
I would say maybe 17 or 18 years old is when I finally started to grasp the whole picture of not just my actual lungs but my immune system is lowered. I have to be very careful. All the things that I thought were possible in my life and in my future, might not be as possible as I dream they were as a kid. I was about eighteen. I’m a slow learner. It took me eighteen but that’s when I started to get the whole picture. Honestly, like we were talking about before we started this, I’m still evolving in my understanding of it.
I’m still learning exactly what it means to have this and I always will be. I’ll always be in a state of realizing what my body can and can’t do and what my limitations are. I’ll always be in a state of evolving in my wisdom in that. As far as making friends, I am so blessed to have a lot of friends. My mom’s been an instructor, so all of her friends became my friends and family. All of my grandmother’s friends, she would get them in touch with me.
I ended up becoming best friends with some of them. I don’t have the traditional go to school and make a whole bunch of friends that way because I was homeschooled. God has been so good to place a lot of friends in my life. Later on, I started going to these online conferences and making friends through that. It looks different. Every part of my life looks a little bit different but we still find beautiful ways. God has still provided beautiful ways for me to still have incredible friends that mean the world to me.
What are the things that came to life, which you’re telling that story or telling your true life experience this perspective? You could have chose to allow the circumstances to control you. Instead, what I’m hearing is that you are controlling the circumstances. You said, “I’ve made friends not the conventional way to other people saying but I do them online. My mother’s friends have come my friends.” It’s like how we met online.
We have to understand that there is another pathway that we don’t have to take the chosen pathway but we have the choice to choose the path that we want. We can either allow our circumstance to hinder us or we can allow our circumstances to propel us forward. I was thinking about a quote that I wrote. That say, “The goal is not allowing. The goal is not suffering for its sake, but recognizing that temporary discomfort is the price of growth.” Understand that I’m not saying it in any way. You’re your going through is been a life time and the lifetime that you’ve been here for years.
Finding Hope In God’s Grace
When temporary, we have to focus on that. For me, this is not it for us because eternity is where we will have everlasting. How do you say and see the difference between the temporary now because you are a person of faith which I hear, God has allowed you. Elaborate on that, the temporary versus what is everlasting and eternal.
You were saying, it all comes down to perspective, those of us who are followers of Christ, which I know you and I both are. We are called to not have a focus that’s on this world, whether it’s on ourselves. We are called to have a heavenly focus, have a heavenly perspective, and try to see things through God’s eyes. The scripture talks about how this life is just filled with, I believe it’s called light and momentary afflictions.
You say, “It doesn’t seem light or momentary to me. This is my life we’re talking about.” In the perspective of looking through the lens of Christ and through the lens of heaven, we see that it is. I’ve heard it said, this life is just a drop in the bucket compared to spending eternity in heaven with Jesus Christ. That’s what a light and momentary affliction or as you’re saying a temporary situation for the process of growth. That’s what it comes down to.
If we see things through that lens of, “This is what seems to be it for now, but this is not it. This is not the end.” Death is not the end. Death is the beginning of eternity, for those who are followers of Christ. We get to spend eternity in heaven and we won’t even be thinking about what happened to us down here. We’ll be worshiping at the feet of Jesus. It all comes down to what your perspective is as you said so beautifully.
Death is not the end but the beginning of eternity for the followers of Christ. Share on XOne of the things that came to mind, which you would just saying there that I like to highlight. At such a young age and I commend you for that. To have this perspective and knowing, how did you develop this perspective? What was a pivotal point that caused you to see it in this life versus seeing it as someone would be like, “What was me? I can’t believe this.” What was that pivotal point, that turning point that made you see, “This is this is not that bad. I can do this?”
I’ll say a couple things to that. The first is I still struggle with that. There are still times when I have a human focus. I have an earthly focus when I know that I should be having a heavenly focus and said. I still struggle with that all the time. One thing that I will say is, we had just been talking about this on my latest vlog, which we can mention in a minute.
It’s the idea of that in this life, we may very well find ourselves and helpless situations. Helpless meaning, there’s nothing I can do to fix it and nothing I can do to change. Doesn’t see any good that I can make out of this situation, but we often get that confused with it being a hopeless situation. There’s a big difference. Having a hopeless situation is not possible because for there to be a no hope situation. That essentially means that has to be no God, because that would mean that there has to be a situation that God can’t come into and God can’t turn it around.
God is Hope. We hope in God. To have a hopeless situation is not even possible. One of the turning points for me is just realizing that in every situation that we face, we may be helpless but we can’t ever confuse that with being hopeless because we are never hopeless because of Jesus Christ. He’s the same yesterday, today and forever. He is hope and we get to hope in him no matter what’s going on in our life. Having that hope rooted in him no matter the circumstances and having that heavenly perspective like we’ve been talking about are all some of the ways that I have tried to have how a better mindset, have a mindset of, “This is well. This is horrible. This is a helpless situation,” but praise God, it’s never going to be hopeless.
Starting A Blog
Thank you for that. Being vulnerable and saying, “I still struggle,” because we all struggle. I don’t want any reader to think that I’m making this seem like she’s walking around happy. Saying that I am so happy that this is going on in my life. I love the fact that she’s being authentic and saying it’s not easy. I’m sure there’s some days that you wake up and you might have that dark cloud over your head. You talked about vlogging and maybe that’s helping you to get that dark out of your head. Explain to me how you got started with the vlogging.
The Vlog has been so much fun to do and I commend anybody to check it out. It’s at Through Jordan’s Eyes on YouTube. You can just search for it. You’re all welcome to go look at out and check some of them out. Look for picture of me and then you’ll know you come to the right place. I started that a few years ago. I have to give a shout out to my friend Eric. He is the one who kept trying to get me to do a vlog. In the beginning, I was like, “I would be terrible at that. I can’t believe you want me to do something like that.”
I ended up trying one just for fun and to see what it was going to be like and it started gaining traction. All my friends liked it. It helped me a lot. I got to share some of my stories, my poetry, and my thoughts and ended up just turning into something way bigger than I ever could have imagined. That’s how I know God’s hand was in it because this is something that I never planned from myself. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine something like that happening but it ended up being a great safe outlet for me to connect with people to share my story yet from the safety of my own backyard.
We were talking about it wouldn’t be possible for me to go and be around people to share my story. This ended up being a perfect way to do it. Every vlog is about 5 to 10 minutes long, give or take. Some of them have my own personal journey. Everyone has a Christian spiritual message, either a devotional or a Christian song. I’m obsessed with Christian music, so there’s a lot of that in there or scripture verse or just some uplifting Godly message that I want to try to encourage everybody who cares it and they walk with the Lord.
Creating A Prayer Line
That is so amazing. To me, it goes to through what I always say is that purpose comes from your life. If you sit down and be quiet, you’ll find the purpose in your life using your current gifts and talents. I have a couple of different questions but let’s go forward a little bit because I was reading of your bio and you have a prayer line and you also participate in prison ministries and some other activities. How did you get involved in those things? What was the conduit? How did you make those connections?
For the prayer line, as I just mentioned, I’m obsessed with Christian music. I always have the Christian radio station on and I heard a, I don’t want to say commercial but for lack of a better word. I heard the prayer line leader get on and say, “Volunteers are needed. You can do it from your home.” It felt like another way, as we were just talking about, for me to connect with people who needed hope and who needed the gospel spread to them from a safe place. Somewhere where I couldn’t potentially get sick with anything.
I ended up emailing the leader about it and the next thing that I knew is I was prayer minister. Once a week, I get the chance to text on the prayer line. People will text me prayer request and I’ll text them back a prayer. I’ve been doing it for a few years now and I love it. I got the opportunity to even lead one lady to Christ that way a couple years ago, which was an unbelievably amazing gift to be able to do that.
It’s been a blessing. That’s like we were saying, it’s not a traditional sense but it’s in the way that my life works and the way that I reach out to people but it’s still beautiful. I still see God providing all these unique opportunities for me. I was so honored that that was one of them. I loved getting the chance to play with people who are in need of it.
How did you get involved with the prison ministry? What do you do with that? Explain on that.
The prison ministry is that I get to write letters to a couple of people who are currently in prison and they write me letters back. I become friends with them. It’s just another thing that God put in my path and I send them devotionals. I just send them fun stories to take their mind off their situation. I send them maybe some song lyrics. I always try to keep their spirits up and courage them. At the end of every letter, there’s a devotional. I try to point them back to God as many times as I can and try to shine a little bit of light into the darkness that they’re currently living in.
How The Relationship With God Evolves
You mentioned your Christian faith has been a foundation of your joy. How has your relationship evolved? How did it develop with God? You sought of your medical challenge. What drew you towards him?
I am sure that my medical challenges are huge part of that. When people ask me that I always say, “I don’t know a life without the medical challenges.” I can’t tell you if my faith would have evolved differently without the medical challenges because that’s been a part of me as we were talking about. From as long as I can remember, I’ve just had these medical challenges. To me, my parents are incredible. I know I’m a little biased but they’re the best parents on the planet.
They have always raised me to follow Christ. The last thing my dad said to me before I went in for my double lung transplant was just followed Jesus and that’s the name of the book that I’m working on writing. That’s something that’s been our family’s motto my entire life. It’s always been that. I always grew up knowing the Bible verses, knowing the Christian song and who God was. As I got older and started to realize more and more about who God was, he became more personal to me.
I started just saying, “This is real. This is not just something I’m following along because my parents taught me to or whatever.” They gave me the foundation for it, which I’ll be forever grateful for but then as I got older, I started saying, “God is real. This is real to me.” God has shown me countless times he’s Grace and his Mercy. He has always been there.
God is real. He is grace and mercy. Share on XA Typical Day for Jordan
Let’s go to a typical and might not be ever typical day. What is a day like for Jordan?
I wake up and I do meds pretty much right away in the morning. It’s called anti-rejectionpathy and immunosuppressant drugs that bring down my immune system. After that, it varies. I can’t go into a grocery store or go to any like public events or running into malls. All that stuff is pretty much not possible for me with my lower immune system. I’ll do the prayer line and vlog and things like that. Primarily, I love being outside. We go for a couple walks every single day.
My mom, my dog and my dad all love to walk together, so we’ll do that. We’ll just hang out. We’ll do things around the house. We still find beauty in every single day and still grateful for every single day even as I said, it’s not typical. I won’t get up and go to work and then go to the grocery store and run a bunch of errands. That’s never going to be my life, but I still get the chance to talk to friends on the phone or get the chance to do a lot of different things that are still fun. I do still enjoy the life that God has given from me and giving to me. I’m grateful for every day of it.
You change. Instead of doing it the conventional way, which we get stuck in. We think that, “I have to put my left leg in my pants first and then my right next.” Only breaking it down to the small detail but it’s no such thing that says you have to do things this way. We need to understand that we can be the author and you were talking about a book that you’re writing, so we’re going to segue into that in a minute. We could be the author of the story of our life if we just believe in what can be possible. Let’s go back to what you said about, “You don’t have to be hopeless and there’s no such thing as helpless either,” because you neither one of those things.
Writing A Devotional Book
I see you as a woman who is finding ways to live her life and embrace that life. Regardless of the parameters that you have. I love that you go outside for a walk. We need to understand that walking is probably the best thing for you, I’m sure with your lungs and your doctors are commending you for that. A lot of people consider how the world is and we have to not allow that to happen to us. We go through challenges because we all have adversity. You have to get back up and keep going. That’s what I love about what you’re doing, Jordan. You’re keeping on going. Tell me a little bit about this book that you have going for you. I’m excited to hear about it.
I would love to you. Thank you. It honestly started based off of the vlogs in a way. We were talking about me doing the vlogs for so long. I ended up taking some of the vlogs that I done and turning them into a devotional book. I have 52 devotionals, so it can be a weekly devotional book. As I was saying with the vlogs, it includes some of my story at points. It always includes a scripture message and an uplifting message. They’re going to be 52 of them. I don’t sadly have any firm details on when it’s going to be published but I’m working that out. My goal is by the end of 2025 the latest. I will have it published, Follow Jesus Christian Devotional book out.
I get it. As an author, I’m on my fourth book and it will be released in October 17th. I think the release date. Don’t quote me on the date. The point is that this has been a book that’s been in the works for over two years. It started t the end of COVID and it’s called Journey to Cite. There’ll be more to come on that but the point is that your publishing is a process. We have the aspiration of hoping that it will be out in six months, but sometimes you have the editor, the graphics that need to be done for the cover and the marketing. You have to make sure you follow that progression because if you just throw something out there and say, “Here you go.”
I am learning that is not going to work. It’s not quite as easy as I thought it was going to be.
Don’t believe. They’ll be like, “That work very well, didn’t it?” Know that when your book comes out, that is when it’s supposed to come out.
Timing is perfect.
Finding Peace In Christian Music
Don’t rush the process. Be cognitive of when you release, when people are most apt to read because we know during the summer months, sometimes people are like, they’ll read and then they might not read but I think your timeline is perfect. One of the things that you talked about was music seems to be an outlet for you. Expand upon that how music is an outlet for you.
It is. Christian music especially for me is one of those things that always points me back to God. No matter what I’m going through. It can be in the middle of the night when I’m crying and nobody else knows or it can be when I am celebrating something or when I am scared. All of the emotions that I feel is when I turn on Christian music and I’m immediately pointed back to God.
My favorite singer is Matthew West. I’ve gotten the chance to meet him, which was incredible. That was awesome. Music to me has honestly, God has used it to save me multiple times because he puts the song that I need right in front of me right when I needed the most. It always uplifts me and helps me feel exactly what I need to feel. It helped me get that heaven perspective again as we were talking about and encourages me to keep going. I always say music is that friend that’s there with you in the middle of the night when you need encouragement.
Music is the friend that stays up with you in the middle of the night when you need encouragement. Share on XHow Fear Impacts Your Life
You made an interesting comment and we didn’t touch upon that but it is real. I know that you have fear of being exposed to a virus like when COVID-19 came up. I can’t imagine. How did you feel? I’m sure you were fearful because they had so many myths out there. You walk outside and you catch it. Walking is important to you and it’s important to me, too. I’m a walker as well. I walk at least twice a day. I’m not going to give that up.
I live in the Chicago land area. Even when it’s cold, I walk because I love the bristles of it, so I’m not going to give that up. How did you feel when you feel like, “I can’t even go outside and walk now?” That was fear of the things that you were used to doing that now might be taking away and then there’s the fear that you might catch something. There’s a fear that the doctor said that you won’t last pass whatever that year was but now you’ve proven them wrong, which goes back to, who is in control? It’s that man, but it’s God. Explain that fear and how it’s impacted your life.
If I had to name my biggest struggle as a Christian, in my Christian Walk, I would say fear every single time because fear is something that is very real. It’s very real to me as soon as I started realizing more. I feel like the more I realized about my health situation, the more fear got a hold of me, like, “This is real. This could change it any moment. This could turn bad at any moment.” That’s fear. One of the things that I would say is that, do you know how many times in the Bible do not fear is listed?
It’s like 300. Is it 365 or something? Don’t quote me on the number but it is a lot.
You’re exactly right. It’s 365 one for every single day of the year. My favorite Bible verse is Joshua 1:9. That talks about, “Have I not commanded you?” First of all, God’s commanding you to do something. If God is your leader, if God is the one that you are submitting to, do you disobey a command from your leader? Have I not commanded you? What? To be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged.
I love that He doesn’t just leave it there. He doesn’t leave it with that command and then walk away and say, “Goodbye. Good luck to you.” He gives us a reason why. At the very end of the verse, He says, “The Lord, your God will be with you wherever you go.” I have held on to that. I even have a little necklace that has that verse on it that goes with me to the doctor’s appointments that I’m just terrified of or even tests for college back in the day. I would wear that necklace and it would just be my reminder, “God is with me in this.”
There’s so much comfort in realizing one, that God’s in control of every single detail. Two, God knows you. God knows the situation you are in. He’s writing your story. He’s so intimately connected with you that he is with you wherever you go. He’s holding you up. I heard it said once and it helped me, “God goes with us into all those situations but God doesn’t feel fear. God doesn’t feel any fear.” Why? It’s because he knows exactly how it’s going to play out and He knows that he has a perfect plan.
Even in those situations where I’m scared to death. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’ve had moments like that where I’m just like, “God, I don’t even know how long I’m going to make it. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m so terrified I can’t even move now.” I just remember God’s right there with me. He’s in control and not afraid. He’s not afraid because he knows what’s going on.
I love that. Jeremiah is one of my favorite ones because he says, “I knew you before you were in the womb.” The whole thing is that we have to go get to know who that he knows and that’s what you were doing and you’re continuing to do because you are living your life. I want to say, listening to your story, Jordan, makes me and I don’t know about anybody else but it’s humbled me so much to think about the small things that happen in life. We could be in a whole different situation.
Finding Joy In The Moment
I need to change my perspective on things. I commend you with the fact that you have not allowed your transplants to control your life and stage you are living. You’re thriving. I want you to share with me because I know you do. What’s the vision that you have for yourself? We all have a vision and I know that you’re basing it on the words. You say that God has a plan for you. What do you see when you look outside in the Supernatural? What do you see for yourself?
What I see from myself like in the future you mean?
In the future, yes. What does Jordan look like? I don’t know how far out you have your vision, so share with me, what is Jordan’s vision for her future and how far out that she gone with that?
Honestly, I don’t have that much of a fire out vision anymore. I try to just take things one day at a time because when you’re in a situation where you don’t know what the future looks like. You’re almost afraid to have dreams and visions too far out. I’ve had those in my past and then I’ve had moments where I realized, “I don’t know what I was thinking. I don’t know what my future is going to look like at all. Why did I pretend that I did?”
For me, I don’t know if I have that much of a vision far out. I just try to stay in the moment. I’ll be grateful for the day God has given me. As far as a vision, my best one is to get my book published. Hopefully, I inspire people with that. Whatever I do as long as God allows me to be on this Earth. I want to do is just share his light and the hope that I have in him with as many people as I possibly can.
I don’t know what that will look like. That’s already opened doors that I never even dreamed of. The fact that I’m here is proof of that, talking to you. I don’t know what it’s going to look like but that’s my goal for the future. It’s just to continue sweating the gospel and continue growing in my walk with Christ and try to continue shining light in a dark world.
Jordan, I disagree a little bit about your vision because you do, with your book. That is a vision. That’s in the future and it’s not today. It’s tomorrow and we don’t know what that tomorrow will be originally for when that book would be published. You also have a vision because you’re looking to continually to get involved in activities that help you be a light to someone else. I don’t want you to leave here with me saying that you don’t have a vision because I feel that you do.
I just see that you are such a beautiful woman and you do have a future ahead. We don’t know what God’s plan is, as you said, but we do know. I go back to Jeremy when he says, “For I know the plans that I have to give you hope in the future.” I asked you, Jordan, to think about that future and the mindset of whatever you think upon is what will be expanded upon. You know that better than anyone because you’re sitting here with me.
I ask you to think about that and remove those limits because you’ve already removed the physical limitations that you have. Expand yourself to see how you can read those capabilities that God has given you and how you can repurpose them and use them in different ways, that bright future that I see for you.
Thank you so much.
God Knows Your Situation
If you had to speak to someone and I’m sure there’s someone out there who’s in a similar situation. What message or what words do you want to leave them with to help them continue the walk in that hope? We all need hope in this world as you said before. I was reading and I wrote about it, is that if you look with that great book that we read, the Bible. There’s people in there like Joseph, Ruth, and Moses. All of them who had adversity.
I look at even people in real life. We had Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr. Harriet Tubman every day risked her life to go bring others back to freedom. Know that we all have adversity but we can move forward if we just look at the evidence of those that went before us to keep us moving forward. What words can you give someone to help them with their perspective and to give them that little spark of hope that they might need to keep them going?
One of the first things that I would say is that, I am sorry for what you’ve been through. I know that it’s real and there are moments that no one even sees or knows about and it’s hard. I would tell you that God knows about all of it. God has caught every single tear. I say this on the prayer line a lot when I’m trying to encourage somebody. “God has caught every single tear that you’ve cried. God has seen every single thought. He’s heard every single desperate prayer that you’ve put out loud or that you prayed or thoughts silently in your heart. God knows about all of that.”
God has caught every single tear you have cried. Share on XGod is not a distant. God is right there with you. God is still writing your story. God is still intricately connected to you and wants to have a relationship with you, even in the midst of that. Another thing that I would say and I know that this is going to be hard to see, but that there is still beauty in the life that you are in. God put you there for a reason. It makes me think of some song lyric. You knew that was probably going to have to come at some point along the line with me.
There’s this one song that says, “God, I’ll find a way to praise you from the bottom of my broken heart because I’d rather strike a match than curse the dark. I’d rather take a chance on hope than fall apart because I’m not ready to surrender to the dark.” To me, those are your two options. You can surrender to the dark. You can say, “I’m all out of strength. I’m a lot of hope,” or you can say, “I’m going to strike a match of light. I’m going to look to the source of all light, which is God. I’m going to try to reflect that light in my own life and I’m going to try to accept that that God has placed me in this situation for a reason.”
I don’t know what that reason is. I may never know on this side of heaven what that reason is. It might not ever work out the way that I wanted to but God’s ways and God’s thoughts are higher and this is where God has placed me. God has a purpose for it. God has a plan in it and as long as you are still alive, God wants you to be alive. God chose you to be where you are, who you are on this Earth for a reason and I would just say don’t give in to the darkness. Keep striking a match of light. Keep looking to the source of light and keep fighting always.
Thank you for that. Jordan, you are an inspiration to many.
Thank you.
I do not take this lightly, your medical journey, you’re grounded in faith and hope. You have personal interests that have allowed you to break out of that bubble that some people would place themselves in. I am so grateful to have had this opportunity to have a little portion of your time in your life that you have. I do not take this lightly and I will continue to communicate with you because I love you so much as a sister to love anyone. You are so bright. I see that brightness in you and I am amazed at such a wonderful and strong woman that you are.
Thank you so much. It’s been such an honor to get the chance to meet you and talk with you and be on your show. I would love to keep in touch with you because I love you as well, sister.
Stay tuned more from Jordan because she will be back again. This is not a one and done. She has so much and I know that we will probably find some miracles that will come out of this young woman’s life that will be such amazing. Know that adversity is only what you allow it to be in your life.
Glory to God. God is good all the time. Praise God.
Thank you.
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About Jordan Richardson
Jordan is a double lung transplant survivor. As one of the rare infant lung transplants in the world, she has survived the complicated transplant life for 22 years. Her Christian faith is the foundation of her joy, strength, and hope. The unending medical challenges have at a young age given her insight beyond her years.
Her heart is guided to glorify God in every adventure, and she has a passion to share God’s love every day. She helps with a National Prayer Line, participates in prison ministry, and offers weekly inspirational vlogs through her YouTube Channel, @throughjordanseyes.
She’s a native of Georgia and loves playing with her animals (a dog and two cats), listening to music, and being with friends and family. She also plays guitar, flute, and piano for fun. Her prayer for each of you is that you will experience the love and hope of Jesus in your life.
