Goals for the month of March

Lately I have felt a lack of purpose. I'm hopeful that I'm not the only one that has experienced that feeling... I just found out I am pregnant (9 weeks to be exact!) and I'm so excited! With this comes numerous changes and uncertainty of what life looks like after baby. I'm excited to be a mom and be home with my little one, I'm just not sure how it looks to still have purpose in my life to achieve the things God puts on my heart. I want my little ones to see a mom who is strong and full of life and purpose; a mover and a shaker, changing the world. I want to be an example of who they can become as they grow and move towards a life fully living with God.

To recapture my purpose I have set two goals for the month of March: 1) Spend 30 minutes or more with Jesus everyday - reading the word and praying. 2) Volunteer 30 hours or more in the month of March to an organization I believe in.

I set these goals on Sunday right before I had a phone call with a group of people that I speak with on a weekly basis. We set goals together and make requests of God regarding how we want to live our lives. This week there were only two people on the call. I began to share with my teammate the goals I wanted to set in March. I told her about my goal to volunteer for 30 hours and that this week I was going to find an organization to volunteer with. She got goose bumps all over! She said she had a feeling that whoever I was supposed to volunteer with would contact me. The next day, out of the blue, an organization ran through our church emailed me about volunteering with Safe-Families. Safe-Families is an organization that matches volunteers with a foster family. The volunteers care for the foster children and build relationships with the parents to help the parents work through the struggles they are facing so they can have their children back in the future. I let her know that I couldn't be a volunteer to take in a child at this time because my husband and I are planning to move in the next month or two, however I'd love to volunteer 30 hours or more throughout the month of March. She was ecstatic! We have a meeting next week and I am so excited to begin to volunteer. This is going to be an exciting adventure and I know is going to have a major impact on my life. I truly feel that this work is moving me in a direction of clarity in my purpose in life and aligning myself with God's purpose for my life.

While volunteering I will also be blogging about my personal time with God. What I'm learning, how it's impacting my life, and changes that I see I need to make in my life. I am hopeful that this too will help me align myself with God's will. '

I hope that you read and participate in this adventure by also stepping out in faith and praying to God, whether you believe or you don't, and if so moved, giving time to an organization you believe in. It is beautiful.