Just for Women 2015 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.

'yada, yada, yada'

Ann Voskamp reminds us of the yada in Thanksgiving and redefines it to fit the truth of God.

How do you cope with a world gone crazy and violent and depressing in the time you are supposed to give thanks?

Never Be Afraid to Listen!

Ann Voskamp reminds us that there is no harm in just listening, and there can be great healing and hope and transformation.

when we’re looking for a brave way to heal our relationships, our hearts & the internet!

Almost Destroyed by the Actions of Another

Stacy Voss shares the parallel between a house burned by a nearby car and the destruction in her life because of infidelity and divorce.

Can you come back from near total destruction?

The Emmaus Option

Ann Voskamp looks at our ravaged world this summer and uses the image of a ravaged countryside to help us remember the power of sharing scars with the one who bears our sin in his scars.

How an old journey and a brief meal can help us reshape ourselves... and our world.

Defying ISIS: #togESTHER

Ann Voskamp on going to Iraq and meeting with those who have lost so much to ISIS and she calls us to wake up and do something

What we can do to help!

Art by Faith

Tammy Ruggles is a legally blind artist, photographer, and writer who paints by faith and not by sight and uses her gifts to bless and inspire.

How can someone who is blind still paint beautifully?

Finding Happiness?

Teresa Bell Kindred reminds us that what we define as happiness is nearly always temporary pleasure that is soon gone and leaves us unhappy; happiness is really on our own shoulders.

Are we looking in the right places to find happiness for ourselves?

Sorry Happy for You

Stacy Voss writes about her pain and a friend's pain at finding out that their husbands have been unfaithful and had repeated adulteries.

How in the world be sorry and happy both?

A Grey Sponge or a Pure Heart

Teresa Bell Kindred compares seeing Fifty Shades of Grey to a dirty mop bucket and a sponge.

Do you really want to fill your sponge with grey water?

Letting Hatred Go...

Stacy Voss reminds us that we can let our bitterness and un-forgiveness poison us and steal our lives from us.

Why do we hold onto the things that poison us the most?

Praise from the Pit

Stacy Voss reminds us of the story of Jonah and how Jonah praised God from the pit, from the belly of the beast, the fish.

I don't like Jonah, but I do like this!

https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201511/20151123_yada.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201510/20151030_listen.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201509/20150904_destroyedbyanother.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201508/20150809_emmausoption.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201505/20150522_defying.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201505/20150508_artbyfaith.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201505/20150502_happiness.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201504/20150424_sorryhappy.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201503/20150314_purity.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201502/20150228_livefully-hatred.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201501/20150109_praisefromthepit.html