by Darcy Wiley | Feb 15, 2013 | Buttons & Thread, Sweet Tea, Take Heart Series
Asparagus sizzled in the top oven. I pulled lasagna from the other and looked up. The golden girl waltzed through the door with pep in her step. She came bearing hugs and kisses and cards, and beamed as my boy told her she was “thinking really good” when she got him...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 13, 2013 | Pocket Change, Sweet Tea, Take Heart Series
Welcome to those visiting from Project Afterbelly! So glad to have you here at Message in a Mason Jar where we’re finding the loveliest things in the most ordinary containers. To get posts delivered to your email box or blog reader, enter your email address on...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 12, 2013 | Relish, Sweet Tea, Take Heart Series
I cried over unspilt milk at the breakfast table. It jostled in the jug, straight from the farm, raw, and my emotions were raw, too. My husband had just seen the mandatory fine print on the label, “Not for human consumption,” and wondered how I could be guzzling it...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 11, 2013 | Fresh-Cut Flowers, Sweet Tea, Take Heart Series
All around is green pasture coaxed out of dry rock and sand with the water from pretend rivers, drink corralled down from the Colorado. The sculpted form of a camel lays down in the middle of it, water stored in the bump on his back, chin on the ground, legs tucked...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 9, 2013 | Lovely Things, Take Heart Series
I Must Tell Jesus, by Elisha A. Hoffman I must tell Jesus all of my trials; I cannot bear these burdens alone; In my distress He kindly will help me; He ever loves and cares for His own. Tempted and tried I need a great Savior, One who can help my burdens to...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 7, 2013 | Buttons & Thread, Pocket Change, Take Heart Series
When you’ve watched shooting stars and new constellations freckle the sky in another hemisphere, boiled water from a dirty creek to make your porridge and wash your hair, walked the streets of shantytowns and felt the dividing line of color, sipped the rooibos and...