Recently I have been watching YouTube videos with the utmost fervor. I will watch for hours and hours on end. I even have a netflix account, and yet I can't find what I want on netflix - I long for YouTube. I've been watching videos primarily about vocation, or at least somehow related to vocation, at least that's where it started, but like every abstract concept you chase after it begins to change and meld and become something altogether more weird. And that's how I got here, to this show, The Monastery. It was a BBC Show about 5 non-Catholics who lived in a Benedictine Monastery, trying to live the Benedictine life. This is towards the end of the mini-series and if you watch, you can see the best description of vocation that I have ever heard. EVER. And I've read a lot of pamphlets, cruised a lot of websites and watched a lot of poorly made videos. Now you have to skip about 4 minutes in, but then the magic begins:
"We have got our Christian name, we've got our family name, but we've got another name, it's called our white-stone name. And that comes from the book of Revelations, where the Angel says that your name is written on a white stone in heaven. And I think our vocation is to find out what that name is." This blog is going to be just that, me, a regular human guy (well maybe not that regular) who is trying to find out his "white stone name." Who is God calling me to be? And how will I answer that invitation?
I have no flipping clue, for serious! But I know that the Dominicans seem like home, the preaching feels like my kind of job, and community is where I want to live. So I'm going to keep at it, and I hope you keep up with me.
