Just for Women 2022 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.

At the End of Ourselves

by Melissa Troyer · Matthew 14:28-20

Melissa Troyer talks about coming to the end of our own abilities, resources, and power to fix ourselves, our problems, and deal with our difficult situations on our own, and then we ask for help and prayer.

Why do we limit our lives to the mundane of only what we can see? Why, oh why, do we cling to safety over being truly alive?

Sky, Dirt, and Dreams Unfolding

by Melissa Troyer · Genesis 12:1-3 · Waiting

Melissa Troyer shares her insightful, home-loving momma whose meditations about life, family, and faith help us grab what is most important in life.

Buried deep in the earth of our hearts, God has buried dreams and hopes. While they lie under the surface, they ARE there.

Peace in This World?

by Melissa Troyer · John 14:27 · Peace

Melissa Troyer reminds us that our world is broken and full of chaos, but we can find peace in this world in Jesus.

We were not created for war, fighting, and death. No wonder our souls gasp for justice and a peaceful community.

Our Holy Mundane

by Melissa Troyer · Matthew 1:23 · Immanuel

Melissa Troyer writes about the pressures of daily life for a mom whose husband is in P.A. school, money is tight, and children are calling, all the while Jesus is near.

Children, chores, and never-ending responsibilities bring opportunities to turn our selfish hearts back to God.

Behind the Well-Known Story, There’s More

by Melissa Troyer · John 21 · Hope

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.

God places value in our journey and the discovery of age-old truths that are vibrant and life-changing for us here in our specific new season.

Hearing Silence

by Melissa Troyer · 1 Kings 19:11-12 · Silence

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.

It's good to embrace seasons of quiet.

To Your Advantage?

by Melissa Troyer · John 16:7 · Holy Spirit

Melissa Troyer reminds us of Jesus' strange promise of going away being better for His disciples than staying with them.

It was in the middle of one of these nitty-gritty down-to-earth conversations between Jesus and His disciples that He fleshed out the secret.

But God!

by Melissa Troyer · Luke 1:37 · Hope

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!

In a world swirling with heavy clouds and looming headlines, we mothers hold a massive opportunity!

Hope Is

by Melissa Troyer · Romans 5:1-5 · Hope

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.

Hope is the life in our veins, the breath in our lungs and the courage for tomorrow.

Starting Over Having Learned Lessons from the Past

by Melissa Troyer · Jeremiah 6:16 · Motherhood · Starting over

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.

We AREN'T enough, but He is. It is the goodness of the Lord that brings us nose-to-nose with our desperate need for Him.

Hard Work and Holy Listening

by Melissa Troyer · Matthew 1:23

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.

Instead of a well-manicured life, and perfectly organized and aesthetic home, my heart is yearning for more connection with love... His love... and, to be part of His loving presence.

https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202210/20221018_end_of_ourselves.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202208/20220802_jfs_unfolding.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202207/20220712_peace.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202206/20220614_ourholymundane.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202205/20220524_theres_more.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202204/20220419_hearing_silence.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202203/20220329_advantage.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202203/20220315_but_God.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202203/20220301_hope_is.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202202/20220208_over_lessons.html 
https://www.heartlight.org/articles/202201/20220118_holy_work.html 

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