by Darcy Wiley | Feb 16, 2013 | Lovely Things, Take Heart Series
The Love of God, by Frederick M. Lehman (1917) The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches to the lowest hell; The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He...
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 | Jul 16, 2012 | Gift from the Sea ~ Summer Book Club 2012, Sweet Tea
We were gathered in by branches, a generous canopy shielding sun from shoulders that looked mostly like stewed tomatoes. I had told my husband to wear sunscreen the day before, but he hadn’t listened. So this day, we fled the Gulf beach to find shade along the...