Parties or Prayer?

A bunch of girls from my sorority

So there's a party tonight. Every year, on the night before school begins a particular fraternity at my University throws a party. It's usually dubbed as the best party of the year.

I'm in a sorority. I have gone to said party every year that I've been a member of the sorority, except for my first year, because, well, I hadn't joined yet. Although, at that time I would have been 17 anyways so they wouldn't have let me in. 

I'm not going to the party tonight. It just does not sound appealing. I would have to either take the bus to campus or drive there and home tonight. I just don't feel like making the 30+ minute trip to get there for something that is not going to bring me closer to God. That sounds cheesy and cliché I know, but right now, the last thing I want to do go drink with a bunch of people that I don't really care for any more. 

One of my best friends and I, first year of University

My two best friends are going. I met them in the sorority, and they are very good friends, and will likely stay good friends. But they don't share my faith, and that's becoming a larger and larger obstacle. In truth, I want to stay home, read scripture and say a rosary before I go to bed and wake up for school tomorrow. I feeling a big war between the world and God right now. My friends will be upset that I'm not going. Probably. But I'm starting to wonder if I should care.


Paul tells us "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." I don't necessarily think the party cannot give glory to God, but I don't think that those are the types of things that I want to immerse myself in any longer.