Connoisseurs of Common Glories: How to Stir Up a Full-Bodied Gratitude
In the dusk after Daylight Saving Time ended, I carpooled four middle school boys to a barn party. My maps app called out step-by-step directions through the speaker and I kept my eyes focused on street signs as we wove our way into the country. As soon as we drove...
Prayer and the Fellowship of Suffering: Meeting Gracia Burnham
In uneven jots of Sharpie, my youngest daughter wrote the letters of her name. The capital G sat like a mini spiral next to an oversized lower case r. She spoke the rest of the letters aloud as she wrote them on her name tag: a…c…i…a. I could smell...
Fruitful Work (Under Less Than Optimal Conditions)
For two seasons, I work away at the keyboard, writing the simplest sounds and phrases for people who don’t know them yet. My students, international employees at local warehouses, are the ones who turn America’s internet orders into real stuff that shows up on our...
Scatterbrainedness, Self-Talk, and Steering Myself to a Better Story
I tapped out the letters on my screen: “Leaving an hour late. Story of my life.” The sideways emoji with its tongue hanging out felt like the perfect icon to round out the text message. I pressed it, then hit “send” and let my friend know I was on my way to Chicago...
Still Not Over It
I checked the time, then packed up our picnic groceries and our luggage. Months earlier, we had booked the last hotel room in this tiny town not too far from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. This morning, we’d drive an hour to the path of totality. As I tucked away the last of...
Welcome to the Neighborhood: How One Church Opened Its Doors to the World {The Yes Effect Book Club, Conclusion: Choose Your Adventure}
From Darcy: Back when I worked on church staff with Dr. Mark Hearn in my city, I often remarked that he had the gift of “visiting.” In other words, if you had a problem, he knew how to do more than show up. He knew how to be calmly present with each...
Building a Solid Foundation for the Next Generation {The Yes Effect Book Club, Invitation 8: Lead Your Followers}
From Darcy: As Luis Bush says in The Yes Effect, Invitation 8: Lead Your Followers, “Whether you look at the abortion statistics in developed nations or the child abandonment statistics in developing counties, it is clear that too many adults see children as...
Living Fully Alive {The Yes Effect Book Club, Invitation 7: Celebrate Your Chain Reaction}
From Darcy: Sometimes when we’re tending to the everyday tasks of life and ministry, we can hardly imagine anything beyond the step in front of us. This week’s chapter of The Yes Effect, Invitation 7: Celebrate Your Chain Reaction, right on the heels of...
What God Is Writing {The Yes Effect Book Club, Invitation 6: Stand Your Ground}
From Darcy: As an idealist, I tend to be the person who gives a hearty yes to an invitation at the start, only to second-guess myself later as difficulties come. I knew writing this book was a hand-picked invitation for me. But I can’t say there weren’t...
I’m Darcy Wiley, co-writer of The Yes Effect: Accepting God’s Invitation to Transform the World Around You. I’m an explorer at heart… Read more