Friday not musings...

So I have been thinking a lot about my college experience in the context of community. It was so much easier to feel connected in college because you lived life so closely with the people you were friends that. I miss my friends from college so much sometimes. I have so many amazing memories and so many places that I wish I could relive again. I hope to have that place here in the bay area.

Just a fact on Trafficking

“Trafficking in human beings is now the third-largest moneymaking venture in the world, after illegal weapons and drugs. In fact, the United Nations estimates that the trade nets organized crime more than $12 billion a year” (Victor Malarek The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade). Found at nightlightbangkok.com

What is trafficking?

“The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation". -Stated by the United Nations

Slavery does still exist. What are we doing about this?

Ever have days where you feel like you won't make it due to your calendar?

Do you ever look at your calendar in a day and wonder, how am I going to make it through this day? I woke up after not being able to really go to sleep until about midnight and had about 25 minutes to make it out the door. I did it though, shower and all.

I was on my way to Tennyson High school for a meeting and the woman who I was meeting with called me right as I had gotten on the freeway. She told me that her daughter was sick and we needed to reschedule. At that very moment I thought of something one of my friends said yesterday, you are loved and you will not be given more than you can handle. Its great to know that hearing God's voice in possible and I heard it today in such a small and tangible way.

The Lord is my shepherd;
I have all that I need.
He lets me rest in green meadows;
he leads me beside peaceful streams.
He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths,
bringing honor to his name.
Even when I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will not be afraid,
for you are close beside me.
Your rod and your staff
protect and comfort me.
You prepare a feast for me
in the presence of my enemies.
You honor me by anointing my head with oil.
My cup overflows with blessings.
Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me
all the days of my life,
and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.

May I get to a place that I am coming from Him filling me and out of that flows everything else. May I hear His voice whisper my worth that comes from nothing I have done or earned but from Him calling me. May the world be found in Him and the hope that Jesus brings. Jesus is the hope of the world and thats the absolute truth.