Mysterious: How God Works

First off, sorry it has been so long since my last post; I am super busy as my Freshman year is coming to a close!

Second, to preface this post, I would just like to say that my posts will likely be long as they are my inner thoughts, which are never short winded.

Anyway, the subject matter:
In a geography class I have been taking we talked about the idea of time space compression. This is the idea that the world has been compacted by all of the technology we have, in turn compressing time and space. We discussed how this happens for many people, but there is also a significant number of people that are not impacted by time space compression. The examples used to further explain this idea were that there are some people who can jet set across the country for a weekend to go skiing, while there are some people who have to trek for hours through a desert just to get water. There were many more examples, but this was the simplest.
Anywho, the idea of time space compression combined with my career goals and gratitude really hit home with me this weekend. On Friday afternoon I flew to Orlando, FL to get a little sun and shop for my brother's fiancé's wedding dress and bridesmaids dresses. While I was there I had all kinds of delicious food and I went shopping to by clothes for my trip to London later this summer. I returned last night around 2:30 am; so I guess technically this morning. On the flight home I was reading Ashley Judd's All that is Bitter and Sweet, a book about her life and work with PSI, an NGO. (I am loving this book because she seems to have so much in common with me that it is crazy.) The part of the book that I was reading described a young woman working as a sex slave in Cambodia so that she could make money to send home to her son for his basic needs. Now, it may seem like there are other jobs she could have taken, but this really was her last resort; she doesn't live in America, and sometimes even in America this happens, which is a shame. The chapters I read last night all contained stories of slavery or people making huge sacrifices like these.
So to connect this to time space compression, I had spent my weekend spending hundreds of dollars to sit on planes to fly thousand of miles to and from my home, the University of Kentucky for two days of bliss, while I was reading about people who are being trafficked and in slavery just to hopefully one day make a journey back home with money to buy the necessities (which does not include an education). I was witnessing time space compression at its finest!
This experience was an amazing one! This may sound crazy, but I am not kidding. It is not me being greedy, it actually really put things in perspective for me. I have witnessed poverty first hand, heard all of the statistics about sex trafficking, asked friends not to watch porn because it supports the industry, seen countless videos about those in the global South who are much less fortunate than myself, etc. but for some reason last nights experience is the one that made me the most grateful to God for everything he has given me. I think this may be because Ashley Judd's accounts of her work with PSI are so vivid and she is so much like me that I can really identify with her. Not only is she from Kentucky and went to UK, but she does the work I want to do. She started as an actor, which has been my dream since I was seven, and then started working for those who don't have a voice in the global South, also exactly what I want to do. Other than this, our personalities seem so similar that when I read her book I almost feel as if I am there doing what she is describing. Her book, along with the weekend I had, really made things a reality for me.
Last night was one of those nights, and as I type out my thoughts now, that I am so certain that God works in mysterious ways and that He is proving His Word to be so true. "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalm 139:16
Last night and my reflection upon it today have made me so grateful for the life God has granted me, sorrowful that some people are subjected to such horrid circumstances and that I can't get them out, but hopeful to make an impact in their lives, and reassured that I know God is watching out for, and loving these suffering people. Last night is definitely something I know God had planned and will work in my life in some way or another; now just to find out what it is! Until then I will continue the state of gratitude I am in, the prayer for the suffering people in our world, prayer for myself, and seeking His will for me through is Word and my actions.
God is good!