Deciphering Storms: How to Face Uncertainty and the Full Spectrum of Human Experience
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...
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...
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...
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