Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

Driving to work in a rare, sunny winter morning, the radiance of the sky attracted my attention. (Oh, I did keep my eyes on the road)!   I thought about graphic design and where artists get their inspiration from. If I weren’t on my way to work, I would have parked and paint the creation before me albeit amateurishly. The sunrise was in a clear blue sky with some shades of clouds. The baby blue, light, yellow and lime green rainbow colors splashed in a 90 degree angle across the skyline. The unique appearance of this natural design was that the orange-colored sunrise was slowly opening like a bud through the haze of clouds right under the multicolored skyline. It enhanced the colors with halos. Woo, it was gorgeous!    The scene was like the red hot flames oozing from a volcano (hazardous as volcano is, the natural aesthetic is awesome). Who made this scenic creation possible? God, Yahweh, Allah, Osenebulua. Would you appreciate the maker as I did the next time you s...

People would describe me as a late vocation.  I think of myself though as a late responder.  The call in retrospect would have come many years ago.  I responded in stages or so it seemed.  I reminded myself of the blind man who received his sight only gradually.  My first call was to single life during which time I served in various capacities and in various ministries.  The idea of becoming a religious sister was always at the back of my mind however and I made sure that it stayed right there! Finally, many years after, and quite unexpectedly, a prompting came again which was difficult not to respond to.   I followed up on it until finally I said ‘yes.’   Why was I stalling? I think it was fear of what the future would hold.  You see at the time, I valued highly my independence.  Giving that up was extremely difficult and so I held back from making a more total commitment to God.    My ‘yes’ to date has broug...