Finding Re2pite
Before Jordan's House welcomed its first guests, one of its founders, Jimmy Peña, wrote this book. It's about suffering, about the special needs parents who never get to stop, and about the rest they deserve.
“The sweetest friend that God ever saw fit to fearfully and wonderfully make.”
The book opens with that dedication. Near the end, a chapter called Crossing Jordan tells how a decade of friendship with one boy taught Jimmy what respite really is. It's the hour a parent gets back. It's a full tank after a long drive.
That friendship is where Jordan's House began.
The gift of mobility.
The book follows wheelchair outreaches in Romania and Brazil. In one, a man named Florin, who had moved through the world on his hands since he was five, got his first chair and started to sing.
The gift of rest.
Special needs parents carry a love that never clocks out. The work, the worry, and the joy all go on day and night. Jordan's House exists for them.
“Parents, grandparents, and caregivers of those with special needs operate in a world of perpetual motion, propelled by the affection of those they hold closest. They need rest. They need respite.”From Finding Re2pite
Less a roadmap, more a diary.
A former fitness editor reached the top of one mountain and found it was the wrong one. After illness, surgeries, and time with people living with disability, he learned what strength is actually for.
Suffering breaks us.
Down to size. Pain takes our categories apart, and we find out how small we really are.
Suffering shapes us.
Into someone we didn't expect to become: gentler, more dependent, and strangely stronger in the dark.
Suffering sends us.
To serve people, see places, and fill spaces we never would have otherwise. Jordan's House is one of those places.
A book about suffering that ends in a place to rest.
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