Jerusalem Jackson Greer > Quotes

“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, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“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 know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“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... I was still me, with all my holes and problems and questions - only now I was also exhuasted and had a lot more laundry to do.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“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 is unapproachable or harsh in me to be scrubbed away by the salt and the sand, revealing the imperfections, the brokenness, the cracks. Not because I am proud of those parts, but because I know it is real. Like the Skin Horse or the Velveteen Rabbit, I am shabby because I live life, because I am loved, and because it is all work - living and loving and being loved, being transformed, being worn and faded”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys, as fixing the same simple dish for supper again, and again. Ordinary is most days, and Lord helps is if we overlook them.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“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 are revived as we become better stewards of what we have been given.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, At Home in this Life: Finding Peace at the Crossroads of Unraveled Dreams and Beautiful Surprises

“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 never know for sure. "Please, Lord, just let the good stuff stick," I pray.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

“God loves us just as we are, just as we were, and just as we will be, and anytime we are ready to do transforming work, God is loving us there as well.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, At Home in this Life: Finding Peace at the Crossroads of Unraveled Dreams and Beautiful Surprises

“Most growth, the everyday kind, is so slow that it is almost imperceptible.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, At Home in this Life: Finding Peace at the Crossroads of Unraveled Dreams and Beautiful Surprises

“Most growth, the everyday kind, is so slow that it is almost imperceptible. It also requires a lot of daily maintenance. Pulling weeds, clearing out debris, watering, tending, feeding. These chores can be meditative, and they can be a pain, but they have to be done, whether you are in the mood or not.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, At Home in this Life: Finding Peace at the Crossroads of Unraveled Dreams and Beautiful Surprises

“When we use the toil of our hands and not only our minds to bring newness and restoration to the world, we become part of God's healing process in creation.”
― Jerusalem Jackson Greer, At Home in this Life: Finding Peace at the Crossroads of Unraveled Dreams and Beautiful Surprises