dancing my night away!
Last night, I went swing dancing with a some guys and one girl…(Ladies…come on! where were you?!)
I’m so sleepy! We didn’t get back until 11:45 PM. I didn’t go to bed until 12:30 AM because I had to fold my laundry. And now I’m so tired and my feet are killing me.
I’ve decided that I really want to take more dance lessons. I think I need to upgrade to intermediate swing lessons and I would really like to learn the lindy hop! It looks like so much fun. And it’s really the kind of dance that they did way back in the fifties.
Glen Echo did an instructors showcase yesterday where they basically advertised all of the instructors around the area. I may check one of them out.
One of the things I love about Glen Echo is that they always have a live band. 
Earlier yesterday, I went out to Great Falls for our Xtended Time with God. I really enjoyed the time because I haven’t had a chance to really sit down and do one of those extended times where I can just sit at the feet of Jesus. During the time, I was reading Every Man’s Battle where I was really challenged by why I should choose to win the battle for sexual purity. The book gives four reasons: For yourself, for your wife, for your church, and for your children.
This BLEW my mind because I don’t have any children..but I ended up thinking about them. I’m not struggling with sexual purity but the principle of the thing made me really think: What can I do NOW to protect my kids? Kids that don’t exist yet. It continues to encourage me that I should start building their legacy now.
This really made me think about my past sins. What really hit me was that my wife, who is innocent in my past sexual sin, will have to face the consequences of MY sin. That really upsets me…someone who had no clue about me…but she will be effected by the fact that I have failed sexually.
I’m entering this transition in my life now that I’ll be a graduate but not married. As I was praying, I felt God telling me, “This is your training.” During this transition, I feel like God is really going to be preparing me for marriage.
I’m still very much content being single. Don’t get me wrong! But it’s exciting that there is a new adventure ahead of me and before I get there, God wants to train me and prepare me so that I can make that big step when He’s ready to take me there. I expect it to be challenging. I expect it to be hard.
But I want God to really prepare me for the rest of my life.
“Worship him in everything you do.”
While what you say is true, I also want you to realize that god has used even your past sexual sin to educate others. Tons of people had told me not to have sex before marriage, but none of them had a real reason. When I talked with you about it, the reasons all became very real, and it helped to hear from someone with a first-hand view on it. To this day when I discuss this issue with my unmarried friends I try to appraoch it with them the same way both you and Jeff approached it with me, since that was the firat time I fully understood the emotional and spiritual issues involved.