Ya just gotta be today. Talk about a career looked down upon in the secular world. Its almost as bad as choosing to be a stay at home mom ;)
Not for nothing, I can’t tell you how many people told him to wait, he will grow out of it, and why does he want to be a priest.
He has wanted this since he was 8 years old. He is now 17. Still wants it more than life itself. Oh, he has his days, but God always lets him know he has been chosen. There have been many many things that have happened over the years, but one that sticks out in his mind was the following:
He was in school and there was a substitute in the class so they weren’t doing much. A couple of kids they never talked to because they were “goth” kids came over and they were all chatting. These were hardcore goth kids, vampire types, with all the trimmings.The goth kid decided to guess what each of the kids would be when they grew up. He went around from kid to kid and said things like lawyer, doctor, garbage man, etc, til he got to my son. He looked him straight in the eye and said you will be a priest. Ya could have knocked my son over with a feather LOL. There have been dozens of incidents like this, and they always seem to happen when he doubts himself.
He goes for a retreat tomorrow, one of his final for discernment before entering the seminary. I gave him to God when he was born; I guess He decided to take him :)
I guess it’s like being an artist/ musician — It’s not what you do; It’s what you are.