“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 are restored by the tilling and the harvesting, our minds are restored by the space such repetitive works opens up within us, the earth is restored by the nutrients provided through the plants, and our spirits… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share
“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
