Reframing Your Perspective in Times of Overwhelm {The Yes Effect Book Club, Invitation 3: Fix Your Eyes}
From Darcy: Last week, we talked about the need to let our hearts break for a person, place, or problem, and how empathy can help us engage with great need. But often, when we stop avoiding hard things to finally feel for others, we can easily trade our...
Empathy Is a Superpower {The Yes Effect Book Club, Invitation 2: Open Your Heart}
From Darcy: In The Yes Effect Book Club this week, we’re responding to Invitation 2: Open Your Heart. If I could give this chapter an alternate title, I would rename it “Break Your Heart.” In an over-connected world, as we’re bombarded on our...
Memorable Mentors in a Life on Mission {The Yes Effect Book Club, Invitation 1: Follow Your Leaders}
From Darcy: By observing and following in the footsteps of passionate believers in previous generations and in other locations, we experience community that exhibits God’s love, and we learn their glorious habit of continually bringing the mind’s eye back to Jesus....
Finding Joy in an Era of Gloomy Headlines
Often, epic moments in Scripture are framed by the sentence: “In the days of….” When I see a phrase like that in my reading, I pay close attention. Words like that are giving us the background scenery for the big plot move God is getting ready to make. How would...
15 Gift Ideas for Adventurers & World Changers
With the cultural tension in our nation and the challenges around our world, we need something to stir up hope. Time and time again over the past couple of years, as I’ve faced hard questions in the political and moral spheres, and in my personal life,...
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