“I want to be softened, not stiff. Pliable, not rigid. I don't want anyone to look at my life and think it is perfect or, worse, that I want them to think it is perfect. Instead, I want anything that… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.” — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys, as fixing the same… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.” — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“Isn't that part of parenting? The never knowing if you are getting it right? You hope you are, you want to desperately, but you… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“When we dig in the soil and plant a seed, we enter into a cycle of restoration that produces wholeness in us. Our bodies… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had a kid...… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“I want to be softened, not stiff. Pliable, not rigid. I don't want anyone to look at my life and think it is perfect… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
