Don't worry, it's not the Dean Moriarty-drug-fueled-search-for-"IT" kind of road trip; we heading to our home diocese to sit on a vocations panel at a youth rally. Not the sort of thing Jack Kerouac was familiar with, I am sure. Unfortunate, because he actually would have stood a shot at finding what he was looking for. I digress...
Adam and I were talking joking with each other about being on this vocations panel...we'll be representing the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony of course, and we wondered what the reaction would be if we treated it all as a sort of competition with the other vocations...priests, brothers, sisters, single laity....like who could get the most kids to sign up for their vocation. We decided we had a definite advantage since our vocation doesn't require celibacy...in fact it requires NON celibacy. We came up with some pretty good one liners, but I'll refrain from writing them here or else google searchers everywhere will find themselves at a Catholic family blog when they least expect it.
In all seriousness though I am looking forward to being on the panel. We do this sort of thing fairly regularly and sitting on a panel is a lot easier than giving a talk. I enjoy fielding questions. Talks aren't so easy. It will be good to see
an old friend again and pray at the tomb of
another friend. Most of all I am thankful for the opportunity to share the adventure that our married life is, all because we strive to unabashedly follow the Will of God. When I was young I longed for adventure, and I worried that my life would be mediocre. Well, those worries were unfounded; life is anything but mediocre, we have after all found the "IT" so many have looked for....it was in the most surprising place...
