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 13, 2014 | Fireflies, Fresh-Cut Flowers, Pocket Change
{I’ve just rolled in from the shore and am reaching two years back into the archives to share with you my favorite Palm Sunday ever. Enjoy as you align your heart this holy week.} Palms waved on Palm Sunday, fronds rattling, applause in the wind. I walked...
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...
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 | May 17, 2012 | Buttons & Thread, Sweet Tea
Her dress stretched taut over her belly like fabric tightened across a needlepoint hoop. It was her third hiding in there, a girl after two boys. But no matter how many times I had seen it happen (or felt it happen), it could never get old, the chance to witness this...