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Is It Okay to Give Up on Your Dreams?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 28, 2020 | Doing Life Together

Have you ever had dreams that didn’t come true? We’re right at the cusp of fall, when people are making plans for the year ahead, and looking back over the year that has past. We want to do it better this year. We want to be more organized. We want to...

Reader Question: What if God’s Telling Me to Quit My Job–but He’s Not Telling My Husband?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 8, 2018 | Emotional Connection, Faith, Marriage

Should you quit your job? What if you feel like God is telling you to quit your job, but your husband doesn’t agree? This week at To Love, Honor and Vacuum we’re going to be talking about how we do family life–how we decide when to work, when to have...

How I Understand Submission in Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 16, 2017 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

What does submission in marriage really mean? I’ve actually written quite a lot about it on this blog in my posts. But recently, when I shared a “manifesto” I wrote about what it means to be a Christian woman, I started reading the comments section....

How Do You Hear God’s Voice?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 1, 2016 | Faith

How do you hear God’s voice? When you so desperately want to listen to God, why does God seem to so rarely speak? I’ve been thinking a lot about those questions lately, and I thought today I’d just jot down some of my thoughts. They may be a little...

What Do You Do If You Each Have a Different Vision?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 22, 2016 | Emotional Connection

What happens when the wife’s vision for her family is different from that of her husband? That’s what I want to talk about today. As my longtime readers know, I’m quite passionate about couples arriving at consensus about difficult decisions. I...

To the Woman Who Divorced for the Wrong Reasons: What Now?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 20, 2016 | Tough Marriage Situations

Did you divorce for the wrong reasons? Yesterday I wrote a post on how often women justify leaving unhappy marriages by claiming that the guy was abusive when it was just that they didn’t really care for each other’s hearts well. And I showed the...