Faith – Page 5 – Mamie L. Pack

Healthy Marriage: 3 lessons about celebrating holidays as a military wife

Being a military wife is already hard, but celebrating special days without your spouse can be particularly tricky. Sometimes, I just want to climb in my bed and just sleep the day away, but I know that is not a healthy response. Instead, I have learned a few healthy lessons that have helped me focus more on what I have in my relationship beyond a date on my calendar. Sign up here to receive your own 20 days to a healthy marriage. Lesson 1—The status of my relationship is not defined by a date Throughou[...]

Lifestyle

Sheltered in the storm

Lately, our weather has been all over the place. One moment it is freezing, the next raining, and then sunny. I try as much as possible to be prepared for these changes, especially taking care of three boys. I keep a blanket in my car, extra hats for those days they boys claim they didn’t know they needed hats, plus an umbrella in my purse and one in the backseat. Recently during one of the rainy days, my favorite umbrella broke. There I stand, rain pouring onto my clothes, my hair and all the other items[...]

Purpose

Hello 2018

New year. New month. New week. New day. New perspective. New opportunities for growth. What a gift we have right in front of us today. But how we manage our heart and our thoughts will have a tremendous impact on the outcome of our year. Nothing new will happen when we allow old pains to keep our heart captive. No change will occur when we continue to see our situations through the lens of defeat and despair. Why have an open door if we are too afraid to step out into the unknown? Why build a new r[...]

Uncategorized

It’s been real 2017

Well, here we are. The last day of 2017. It wasn’t that long ago that I was sitting here, looking at my word for the year-BUILD. At first, building sounded so exciting, but that was until I read the definition. BUILD: to form by ordering and uniting materials through a definite process to create a whole I don’t know about you, but three words stuck out to me from this definition—order, unite, and process. The first step this year was order. God first. Nothing added. Just that one simple concept. Umm[...]

Lifestyle

Hello New Beginnings

Hi, I'm Mamie and welcome to my blog. If you were sitting next to me, I would go ahead and give you the biggest hug (usually, I do try to ask first). I am ecstatic you are here with me. Normally this would be the place where other professionals say you should tell your reader a little about yourself. So, I could share several facts about myself that evolved with age, like I wanted to change my name once I turned 18 or I thought I wanted to be a lawyer when I grew up. But one fact I would definitel[...]