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 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...
by Darcy Wiley | Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus Crisis, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
Not too long before the concentric circles of Coronavirus found their way to our part of the world, I read an essay about how the American way of life is killing us. The author said, “In spite of a so-called thriving economy in the land of plenty, a great number...