by Darcy Wiley | Nov 23, 2021 | Kindness, Relationships, Sickness
It’s a precarious thing to tell people you’re sick in bed with Covid-19. We’ve read the concerns from every point of view. We’ve seen the sometimes thoughtful but many times passive aggressive or just plain aggressive social media posts. Some people think...
by Darcy Wiley | Nov 12, 2021 | Grief, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
Every Tuesday, Jacquie Reed pulled into my driveway, shuffled up my steps with her blue canvas bag over her arm filled with scraps of paper, artwork, and her file folder, and spent an hour and half with me sharing both sorrow and beauty as we worked through her essays...
by Darcy Wiley | Apr 24, 2021 | Books, Character Growth, Interviews, Relationships
Featuring an interview with Dorothy Littell Greco, author of Marriage in the Middle My husband and I picked up the minivan from the repair shop and headed out for a much-needed date night. Our van was a problem child, so the shop had become quite the hangout for us in...
by Darcy Wiley | Apr 2, 2021 | Experiencing God, Jesus, Spiritual Formation
This meditation was written to accompany Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross, presented for Holy Week in my local congregation. As you read or listen, I trust you, too, will be struck by Jesus’ tender empathy and fierce devotion even as he was being...
by Darcy Wiley | Aug 29, 2020 | Character Growth, Coronavirus Crisis, Experiencing God, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
If you turned your head and looked only at one side of the sky, it was hard to imagine that the other half looked like it did. All the way to the left you’d find a pale blue backdrop with puffy clouds reflecting so much sun that you had to squint even through your...