by Darcy Wiley | Mar 4, 2013 | Take Heart Series
One of my favorite times of day comes when the lights go out and I arrange the pillows, when I finally cease my own striving and lay still enough to feel only the movements of what is to come, this baby I asked for, one I waited for like all my babies. She rolls...
by Darcy Wiley | Mar 3, 2013 | Take Heart Series
His Eye Is on the Sparrow, by Civilla D. Martin and Charles H. Gabriel Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? Why should my heart be lonely And long for heaven and home, When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is he: His eye is on the...
by Darcy Wiley | Mar 1, 2013 | Pocket Change, Take Heart Series
This past week, I sat in the orthodontist’s chair for the last time. The doctor took pliers to the brackets and snapped them off of my teeth one by one. He had done that to my skepticism, too. I had come to him a mess after two and a half years in braces at another...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 28, 2013 | Sweet Tea, Take Heart Series
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...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 27, 2013 | Take Heart Series
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...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 26, 2013 | Sweet Tea, Take Heart Series
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...