empathy Archives - Darcy Wiley

Behold Your Son. Behold Your Mother.

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...

Prayer and the Fellowship of Suffering: Meeting Gracia Burnham

by Darcy Wiley | Oct 21, 2019 | Experiencing God, World Changers

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...

Empathy Is a Superpower {The Yes Effect Book Club, Invitation 2: Open Your Heart}

by Darcy Wiley | Feb 6, 2018 | World Changers

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...

15 Gift Ideas for Adventurers & World Changers

by Darcy Wiley | Dec 14, 2017 | 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,...

A Week of Lost Things (and How You’ve Got to Keep Filling the Vase)

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 16, 2013 | Buttons & Thread, Sweet Tea

Welcome to those visiting from Kelli Trujillo’s blog today. I’d love to get to know you, so go ahead and take a minute to introduce yourself in the comments. To keep up with future posts, you can enter your email address on the homepage sidebar or put...