Most people don't think about how a sacrifice and a blessing go hand in hand. Over my life I have observed that God always notices when a person is making a sacrifice for Him. The blessing may not always (if ever) appear in the way you may think that it will, but there is always a blessing. Knowing this gives me the courage to make sacrifices for God. I know He has my back. Lately, I have made quite a few: sold most of my possessions, sold my house, moved in with roommates, and now my hair. 
You may be thinking that out of all the big things that the hair is no big deal. However, for me it may be the biggest sacrifice. All the others were mostly possessions and getting used to living with other people after so many years of living alone. They were, but my hair was a thing of pride for me. I always got so many compliments about my hair that I started to believe that it and my smile were my only true beauties. Cutting 17 inches off was a hard sacrifice because it was giving up part of my identity and realizing that my beauty comes from God because He loves me and made me exactly how I am. It is a blessing too because I am praying that my hair will go to a little girl and that she will feel beautiful because of it. That my hair may bring the reminder of who God is in her life.
24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,[a] through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:24-26
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