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When A Lovely Marriage Seems Like a Pipe Dream

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 6, 2015 | Family

I was browsing through Facebook recently when a cute picture came up. It was a selfie taken by two pretty women in their mid-twenties trying to show off their baby bumps. They were cousins, pregnant at the same time. They both had on a bit of makeup. They both had...

The Lulu Tree, Christmas Giving, and How One Blogger Made a Difference

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 25, 2014 | Faith

Today lean in close, as author Emily T. Wierenga shares a story about The Lulu Tree, which will mark and change your life. Engage her story and respond. It may change countless lives. I never planned to start a non-profit. But then again, I...

What a Difference a Light Makes! With IKEA Brighter Lives

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 23, 2014 | Uncategorized

What would it be like to live without lights? IKEA asked me to be part of a campaign to raise awareness for their Brighter Lives initiative, where they supply refugee camps in Jordan, Ethiopia, Chad, and Bangladesh with solar street lamps and solar lanterns to help...

IKEA’s Helping Refugees–with their Brighter Lives for Refugees Program

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 8, 2014 | Uncategorized

Lately I’ve been busy. And we’ve had some major ups (things to celebrate!) and some major downs (health problems) in my extended family. And when that happens we often get really self-absorbed. We think about how hard our own lives are. So when Ikea...

What If Marriage Matters?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 25, 2013 | Tough Marriage Situations

Every Friday my column appears in a bunch of papers in Ontario and Saskatchewan. This week’s column asks the question: what if marriage matters? What if we’ve started this vast social experiment saying that marriage is just a choice–and we’re...

Empowering Women the World Over–Do We Know How Good We've Got It?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 17, 2013 | Uncategorized

Some of the greatest highlights of my life will always be the missions trips that our family has taken to the Mulli Children’s Family in Africa. It’s a home for orphaned, neglected and abused children–about 1000 of them at a time. A wonderful and...