michal's musings

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  The only thing we buy for that holiday is food. We don’t have to get any gifts to anybody.  This is very cool.  Sometimes I am tiered of Christmas.  It looks like it is all about gifts and decorations and … whatever.  For me the month of December is a month when I celebrate the Festival of Lights.  We celebrate Hanukkah, Solstice (the shortest day of the year), Christmas, Kwanza and perhaps few other holidays.  All of them are connected with some form of light.  Also, I like the fresh snow when it is white and beautiful.  It makes everything bright.  It works with moon very well.  It makes the night brighter. So, thanksgiving is in two days.  Let me enjoy food and walk and not working.  It looks like I will do this same thing during the December break too.  Happy Thanksgiving!  

I read an article about vocations in the Vision Vocation Guide .  It was by two nuns who gave me a totally different perspective on answering to God’s call.  These are the two paragraphs from this article: As the two women discuss the issues this question raises, neither sister is trying to push the listener into the convent. Just because someone is interested in prayer and spirituality, they point out, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re called to religious life. “Maybe this is a call to be open to any number of directions God might be calling you,” said Kollasch. “I think it’s safe to say that God is calling you somehow to a deeper relationship with Godself,” Vieira said. ‘You don’t have to answer the question: ‘Should I be a nun?’ Instead we can go with what we can be sure of, which is that God wants to know you, maybe in a new or deeper way.” http://www.digitalvocationguide.org/vision/2015#pg110 I cannot stop thinking about this definition.  I became a priest because