Melissa Troyer writes with her unique and young mothering grace as she discovers new truths from an old familiar passage to discover, old stories have new truths when we come with fresh eyes and from a new place in our lives.
05/24/2022 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer urges us to listen to the silence so we can hear the voice of God calling to us in the gentle slosh of the paddle slide through the water and the whisper of a gentle breeze.
04/19/2022 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer reminds us of Jesus' strange promise of going away being better for His disciples than staying with them.
03/29/2022 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer looks at everyday life, her children, and the horrifying images and videos and cries of mothers and children, and sees an opportunity to teach our children to say, But God!
03/15/2022 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer looks at our cold world as we ensure the cold of later winter and trust life will come back in the Spring and reminds us to trust life is coming.
03/01/2022 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer combines her journey through motherhood, her realization of inadequacy, her belief in God's sufficiency, and the willingness to teach using our own failures.
02/08/2022 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer comes to us again through the ordinariness of daily life and reminds us to listen for Jesus' presence and look for ways to be conduits of God's love.
01/18/2022 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer is moved by a family and church celebration of Jesus as the Light during Advent season and reflects on what this means to us all.
12/23/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer shares a prayer all mothers of deep faith can pray over their children, and the children of others.
12/02/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer shares the worship in stooping to clean up the messes that are part of a mom's everyday experience with little children she is trying to mold into followers of Jesus.
11/02/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyes writes with beauty about God’s touches of grace on a trip to New England with her family as she wrestles with the grief over an aunt who is gone too soon and the uncertainty of the future of her family and where they will live.
10/12/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer is having one of those days where you want to run away and hide and yet has a young child that demands attention, driving Melissa back into the strength of God!
09/14/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer writes about the challenging realities of the roles we have to play and have to fill and then wonders, and embraces, that maybe these are exactly the roles God has made to embrace and fill.
08/31/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer reminds us of the breathtaking partnership we have with Christ to remain in the process of transformation.
08/10/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer reminds us of those mistakes made by our little ones when they are in their early exploration modes and how our job is not to load them down with rules but to show them where to reach.
07/20/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer shares her memories of her grandmother, Mimi Margaret, and tells her children about the safest place of her childhood.
07/06/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer writes powerfully and poignantly about the journey she and her husband, Daniel, have traveled to live love and mission and family, together, finding God as their sanctuary.
06/08/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer reminds us that things are just things, but if we have people we love then we have what matters most!
05/25/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Jordan Harrell leaves us with a powerful and beautiful reminder of God only calls us to be who he made to be in the situation he placed us!
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Melissa Troyer shares her busy and messy Easter morning when she arrived in a mess and exhausted from the messiness of the morning only to meet Jesus there.
04/06/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Melissa Troyer reminds us that the only way out of the mess we now find ourselves in is to start our own movement of grace.
03/23/2021 by Melissa Troyer
Teresa Bell Kindred shares an emotional story from her experience caring for her husband in his two-plus month battle with COVID-19 and invites us to pray God's blessing into the life of an unknown young wife whose husband is in ICU.
03/09/2021 by Teresa Bell Kindred
Christine Derengowski writes frankly and truthfully and encouragingly about dealing with our superheroes who have had to conquer forces unseen before for school kids in this crazy COVID world!
02/23/2021 by Christine Derengowski
Jordan Harrell reminds us to not listen to the lies of Satan but instead remember who God is, what God has done, and what we know of God, and trust God's voice and not the lies of our circumstances, problems, pandemics, or hopelessness.
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Melissa Troyer reminds us of Jesus who brings peace in the worst of storms, both the early disciples in a boat and us in our troubled world.
01/26/2021 by Melissa Troyer