Usually when I tell people, who are not in my usual friend group, that I am a virgin I get comments like: “Wow! Good for you!” “That’s great!” and other encouraging remarks. The other night though I received completely different responses! Two girls were shocked, laughed, and basically told me that I was stupid. I was shocked! Another boy told me that I should just get it over with with someone random, so my heart won’t be as broken if my husband, who I intend to be my first, leaves me. Wow! How romantic! I’ll get right on that! I have not felt such a burden for people in the United States before this. They just could not understand why I would wait for marriage or why my motivation for doing so is God. It was so difficult to hear. The harvest is plentiful! So hold on to what you believe and pray for the harvest! And then… become a farmer!

I am so excited to say that I have officially signed a lease to a house for after graduation!  It is a cute, 3 bedroom house that is close to campus.  I will be living with 2 other sorority sisters.  I am so excited and cannot wait until May 1st, when we will receive our keys!

I reblogged something similar to what I was doing for Lent, but have not actually said it.  I am actually doing two things, which have prooved to be especially challenging.  I am:

1. Giving up Spending Money!  This has been especially difficult, since I constantly want Sonic Happy Hour!
2. Pressing Snooze: always a challenge for a college student.

I chose the first one, because I feel like lately I have become overconsumed with money: Saving it, spending it, planing to spend it, dreaming of spending it!  So I am trying to stay away from all that.  I have quicky learned that that means giving up internet “window shopping.”  As for the second one, I will have mornings where I press the snooze 10 times before I actually get up!  I carefully plan each minute in the morning so I can get ready and do a little QT (quiet time with the Lord).  Of course morning rolls around and all that I am thinking is, 5 more minutes… Just 5 more minutes… last time i’ll press it… one more.  Super hard!  But the times I pull through and do it, I have some of the best mornings.

Now of course I am not writing this as a “look how holy am I.”  No, it is just to keep me accountable and to encourage those of us who observe Lent and are making sacrifices to grow closer to God; also for y’all to keep me accountable.  So good luck with y’all’s Lent, and I pray that our sacrifices send up pleasing aroma’s to our Lord!

For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. -2 Corinthians 2:15