Reclaiming Your Heart ~ Giveaway {Take Heart…in the Quest for Wholeness}
From the moment I met today’s guest writer, I knew I’d found a kindred. Denise speaks such profound insight in that gentle voice of hers, and when she’s sitting across the table telling you the glories of biscuits with chocolate gravy and all the...
The Time to Live It {Take Heart…in the Quest for Wholeness}
Today in our Take Heart series, I’ve asked my new friend Nancy, whom I’m met through The Story Circle (in)couragers writing group, to share about how she handled her doctor’s dreaded words, “It is cancer,” and how God’s words helped...
Health Fails, Help Comes ~ A Link-Up {Take Heart…in the Quest for Wholeness}
Today in our Take Heart series, my friend Adrienne shares about a recent diagnosis that brought unexpected spiritual and relational blessings. I reached for my phone to check my messages. It was a reflex action– one that happens when your technology...
Comfort Food for the Trampled Soul ~ plus giveaway winner {Take Heart…in the Quest for Wholeness}
We pull our chopsticks from their wax paper wrappers, snap them apart and graze them against one another, like twigs starting a fire or iron sharpening iron, to smooth out the splinters while our food steams and cooks in the kitchen. I turn the English and pinying...
The Broken Language of True Friendship {Take Heart…in Kinship & Community}
We slammed the taxi doors in unison, shook off the secondhand smoke and let our frustrations turn to ice in the open air. The four of us walked the grey pavement in our knock-off North Face coats. No words, just grumbles. No eye to eye, just rolling of the eyes....
Framing the Fragments ~ A Giveaway {Take Heart…in Kinship & Community}
When I take in her words, I go away pondering, considering. Sometimes a piece is so moving that I leave it on the screen and come back for a second read. When I see her artwork, I feel like testing my (child-like) skill with the paintbrush. It’s the sign of an...
A Friend for the End ~ Link-Up {Take Heart…in Kinship and Community}
Today in our Take Heart series, my friend Christie Elkins shares about how she felt God’s comfort even as she and her family watched their church crumble after almost a decade of ministry. I exited the door, turned left, my worn ballet flats sliding...
A Eulogy for My Enemy {Take Heart…in Kinship and Community}
Today in our Take Heart series, an anonymous friend shares about how God helped her mend a difficult relationship with her mother-in-law…just in time. They were like dirty dishes stowed away in the cupboard, these thoughts and feelings we had about each...
The Love of God: Other Words to Help You Take Heart in Romance
The Love of God, by Frederick M. Lehman (1917) The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches to the lowest hell; The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He...
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