Man, so this year's been awesome and horrible and good and bad and challenging yet so refining. God has taught me a lot since I transferred here to SC. Classes are difficult and it’s been a long process of learning and maturing academically-lots of late, sleepless nights where I just wanted to give up. If there’s one thing that I know God has hit me over the head with its HUMILITY. I’m currently in a class of about fifteen students where we discuss social change and have to read packets upon packets of case studies and participate in highly intellectual conversations which I have so much trouble contributing to and just end up feeling intimidated by all these students who use phrases like , “Clearly the case study is insufficient in research and problematic, etc.” Also, I’m still involved in Greek Life which has brought separate challenges as well. I think I’ve held off on sharing about my year and limited it to talking about goldfish since any entry would’ve come out as one big senseless flood of ranting but I konw God still has a plan. Tonight I met with my friend Rachel from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship who is also a member of Greek Life. She asked me what I wanted to see accomplished these last six weeks of school and my answer was basically to just survive and invite non-Christians out to InterVarsity. I said I wanted to let my Greek friends know that I’m here and they can come to InterVarsity if they’re interested and want to know more about Christ. I explained that I didn’t want to be to forceful because maybe it’s not God’s timing and they may just come to the Lord later in life, but Rachel told me that God wants to move now and we should pray expecting that these people will come to the Lord. While I believe that we are called to help people on the path toward Christ and plant seeds, Rachel’s comment really struck me. I think that God does honor hearts that are passionate about taking immediate action to share the Gospel. God never stops caring about the lost. Rachel and I ended up deciding to set up an event for the purpose of ministering to the girls in our sorority. We’re praying about the possibility of bringing our two sororities together for a night out where we’d go have dinner somewhere fun and then set up some kind of formal discussion time to talk about topics that are pertinent to young women like image or media. Hopefully it’ll grow into a deeper conversation surrounding the meaning of life and we could try and answer any questions that might arise about Christianity. I know giving up sweets or junk food for Lent has been discouraged but these things are so much harder for me to give up than TV or online socializing. Right now I’m craving chocolate and my leftover Chipotle burrito that’s in my fridge but the hardest thing would be for me to walk away from all that and just pray about all that Rachel and I talked about. Thanks for letting me share, thanks for taking time to read and please be praying! | 
