Roles Social Worker
- Get my BSW.
- Serve the disadvantaged.
- Narrow down my field and find a job that I feel meaningful.
- Go back to school / Enroll at Portland State University.
- Get involved in the community. Serve the disadvantaged where I'm at.
- Having enough money to pay for school by myself.
- Managing my time; balancing work, class, and volunteer opportunities while not ignoring my other roles.
- Graduation day from Portland State University.
- Getting to know people who are in need on a personal level and finding practical ways to help them. EX: Encouraging a teenager to stay in school despite his/her obstacles and seeing that same student graduate from High School and get accepted to college.
Spiritual Being
- Consistently seek a relationship with my Creator. Know and be known.
- Commune with others who are seeking a relationship with God.
- Become someone who prays without ceasing.
- Set aside time EVERY DAY to seek Jesus. It doesn't matter what it looks like. Just set my heart towards Him.
- Belong to a church and seek relationships with purpose and sincerity.
- Start asking Jesus what He thinks about things and ask God to move in situations.
- The battle with my flesh: "There are better things to do than read my Bible or pray." "I'm soo tired. I promise I'll spend time with You tomorrow."
- Fear and insecurity keep me from getting to know other people. Feeling inferior leads me to not enter into community at all, or pretend to be someone that I'm not.
- I have to make a decision (maybe about finances or my schedule) and before listing my pros/cons or getting advice from others I go directly to God and ask for wisdom and grace to make the right decision.
- I'm at a homeless shelter, and at the prompting of the Holy Spirit I pray for healing or breakthrough in someone's life and God moves.
- Five years from now, I can look back on the year 2012 and laugh because of how radically God has changed my heart.
Sister / Daughter
- Find practical ways to love and bless my family.
- Keep an open relationship with each of my family members: ask questions and be aware of what is going on in their life.
- Make a habit of seeing or talking to EACH of my family members every week.
- Make a habit of asking what is going on in their life before I start in on what's going on in mine.
- My flesh/ wanting to be the center of attention. This will keep me from being genuinely interested in what is going on in my family members lives.
- Time management: I might have trouble finding time to spend with each family member.
- My dad (and other family that I don't normally connect with): how do you begin conversations you don't normally have? How can I be creative in spending time with people I don't normally feel close to?
- Bitterness in my own heart about present/past hurts. Learn that forgiveness and love is more important. Love is louder.
- 10 years down the road, when I have my own family, I'll still be able to call my sister and brothers every week and talk to them like no distance separates us.
- God uses me to show the love that He has for my family.
Physical Being
- Run a 5k. Any 5k will do.
- Download the Couch to 5k app.
- Stick to the Couch to 5k training program (8 weeks)
- Pay the money and sign up to run the 5k.
- Physically show up and run.
- Physical challenges/ asthma. Training for a 5k is harder when your lungs don't want to work with you.
- Overcoming exhaustion / fighting the urge to take naps when I get home from work.
- Finishing my first 3 mile "training" run and the feeling that I overcame my physical limitations.
- Crossing the finish line with friends.
Friend of the disadvantaged
- Go to Haiti.
- Meet people I wouldn't normally meet.
- Love on orphaned children.
- Participate in grassroots projects to benefit the people of Haiti.
- Fundraise!
- Purchase a plane ticket to Haiti.
- Take off of work.
- Pay my bills for the month I'll be gone.
- Show up to the airport at 7am, May 16.
- Engage myself in the Haiti Communitere community.
- Partner with Future for the Kids to visit orphanages!
- Fund raising. Saving & raising enough money to be able to pay for the trip and all of my bills.
- Not feeling like I have qualities to offer will hinder me from being vulnerable and truly challenging myself to get involved.
- The plane taking off from DFW to Miami.
- Arriving in Port-au-Prince and finding my way to the compound.
- Taking a bucket shower for the first time.
- Hugging children at the orphanages day in and day out.
- Discovering my strengths (and weaknesses) and the moment I find what it is I contribute to communities.
- Flying home with a wealth of joy and new perspective.
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