Just for Women 2024 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.

The Hands that Helped Formed Me

Melissa Troyer shares the challenging and agonizing and glorious moments of giving birth through several difficult deliveries and remembers all the key people who have formed her into the woman she has become.

It's not in my most mountain top moments, but in the desolate, agonizing ones of inability where I've found that infilling.

A Mother's Day Surprise

Some surprises on mother's day are not wanted.

What is the best you can do today on Mothers' Day?

They Danced!

Melissa Troyer reminds us of the importance of marking each stage of our deliverance and our journey with God, with joy and dancing!

They danced while still not knowing exactly where they would even sleep that night.

The Vast Sky Was My Teacher

Melissa Troyer draws on her life of experiences with the vastness of our universe and her need and thanks God for always knowing and seeing and caring and planning for us.

The vast needs that spread wide before us? They are already in His hands.

The Blessing of Raising Teens?

Melissa Troyer is back living in her crazy world with grace and reminding us that raising teenagers can be embraced as a grace from God despite being hard if it calls us to look at our brokenness and weak place.

Parenting teens is one of the best, hardest, most growing things I've ever done.