Just for Women 2007 Archives

For over 30 years, Heartlight has shared articles to help people live for Jesus in everyday life. While we are no longer publishing new articles, this enduring collection features relevant pieces throughout the year to encourage faith, offer biblical perspective, and speak to real-world joys and struggles.

Give Mary Credit

Jeff Lee reminds us about Mary's faith, but he also reminds us of the importance of having a heart like hers.

What about Mary?

In the Shadow of God

Lisa Mikitarian shares a story about her husband being a builder and how God wires some to be builders themselves.

How has God made your child?

To Know This Love That Surpasses Knowledge

BooMama shares her insight into the privilege of raising a son, a child, that God has given her to train in His ways.

What can top a mother's honor?

Totally Present for Today with a Vision for Tomorrow

Michelle Howe warns women about worry and wishing that can rob them of the present moment and distort their vision of their future.

Can I be present in the moment and still have a hope for the future?

Hand-Me-Downs

Mary Anne Brannon shares memories of her childhood and the hand-me-downs and hand sewn clothes from her mother that were all made with love.

Have you worn your cousin's best?

Praise and Perspective

Kimberli Brackett reminds us that even in the worst of circumstances, God is at work trying to make something out of our situation and we can see if we will praise God and ask for his perspective.

Where do you get the perspective to praise God during tough times?

Market Place Moments: Appreciation

Michele Howe reminds us again about women in the marketplace and the very needed virtue of affirming and giving appreciation to those who need it and deserve it.

What's the difference between flattery and genuine praise?

The Staying Power of Our Words

Katha Winther reminds us of the weird and yet powerful staying power of many of our words and reminds us to use them to be a blessing to others.

Why do some of these things stick in our heads for so long?

The Jewel

Muriel Larson reminds of the great blessing we have from Romans 8:28

What's the most precious thing you've seen?

Too Much Rain!

Katha Winther reminds us that life can be full of periods of bad things and rainy days with floods, but God has not forsaken or abandoned us and will see us through.

What can you do when the rain falls and the floods come?

How Beautiful

Sarah Stirman reminds us that when we use our hands to serve the Lord, we are seen as beautiful and he gives us strength to serve him.

How beautiful are your hands?

He Walks with Me

Leah Adams remembers a friend who had gone to be with God and a song sung at her funeral that reminds us all the God longs to walk with us and talk with us and tell us we are his very own.

Have you met Him in the garden lately?

Unplug!

Teresa Bell Kindred shares with us her absent-minded follies because she is distracted from all of her hi-tech toys to which she is plugged in and she reminds us to get away and be with God.

What's got you so distracted?

God Never Stops Calling

Tammy Marcelain shares about her return home to God and how it was a walk with Jesus that did it.

Have you heard his voice?

GPS?

Teresa Bell Kindred shares an experience she had with her GPS and then compares it to God's Plan of Salvation which is in the Bible, the only Voice we should trust.

Can your GPS get you out of life's real pickles?

I Was a Snob and It Breaks My Heart

Kimberli Brackett reminds us that it is easy to slip into the role of being prideful and a snob who hurts others because of our silly and stupid pridefulness.

How hard is it to admit that we can be religious snobs?

It's Not About ...

Is our life about us or about God, about giving him the praise in everything or about everything revolving around us.

What is your life really about?

Victory Over Loss and Anger

Loss of a dream, losing a loved one, is not fair and can often leave us confused and angry, so how do we cope with it, by turning it over to God and living for him.

Can we really ever get over our losses?

Commitment Sunday

Mildred Budge goes to church decked out on commitment Sunday.

How much would Mildred Budge commit?

The Little Things

Leah talks about struggling with a mess at her new home and shares how prayer and God's help pulled her through!

What is too small to trust God with?

Forever Stamps?

Somethings have been bought forever, maybe not stamps, but we have been bought by the blood of CHrist.

Does anything really last forever?

Beautiful Feet

No matter how ugly your feet may look, if you share the good news of Jesus, God says they are really beautiful.

How pretty are your woofng dogs?

Jesus, Send the Cops

Mildred Budge, church lady personified, faces another set of misadventures, this time with a truck driver, a Hummer, and an ambulance at Wal-Mart.

What in the world has Mildred gotten herself into this time?

Let's Not Be Deceived!

It is so easy to be deceived by the evil one, but the Scriptures can help us like they helped Jesus overcome temptation.

Have you been trusting in the wrong things?

A Soul Called Leslie

Tammy remembers a strange person welcomed at her church and how important it is to love all the Leslie's in our life.

Would you have gone looking for Leslie?