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Ricky you must be exhausted! Digging so many holes to plant my azaleas! Why don\u2019t you come up on the porch and have a couple of hot dogs? I put some of my home made chili on top and there\u2019s some baked beans I\u2019ve had in the crock pot all morning. There, now you just sit down and I\u2019ll bring you some iced tea. Pull the table out. Gus\u2013shoo! I declare, that cat will just climb up anywhere! When you want him he won\u2019t come. When you don\u2019t want him he just hangs around being a nuisance.<\/p>\n

Here you are. There\u2019s more where that came from if you\u2019re hungry. I know what you mean dear about the monks at the Abbey. I\u2019m so glad you went there for a visit, but I never thought you\u2019d go back so often! I\u2019m so pleased you like it there. Isn\u2019t Father Joe something? Eighty three and still going strong. Of course it\u2019s fine to talk to me about your future. You\u2019re a junior in college. If you\u2019re not thinking and worrying about your future you ought to be, and let me tell you. The fact that you don\u2019t know what you should do with your life is a good sign. I\u2019m always rather worried about those boys who go off to college to get a business degree and never give anything else a second thought. They end up living an unexamined life and then after they\u2019ve been successful and got everything they think they wanted they go crazy and run off with some silly blonde and get a wig and a sports car. Never mind. We won\u2019t think about them.<\/p>\n

I think you might have a vocation, and why be ashamed of it? If I were your age and a boy I\u2019d be very attracted to the monastery. My Henry was you know. He was much like you. Loved reading and being quiet. Why, when Henry first came back from the monastery he was just beside himself with excitment. I remember him joking about the silence saying, \u201cMother, I can\u2019t think of anything better than to have my own room, a big library, a nice church to worship in and think of it! They actually don\u2019t want me to do small talk!\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019re like that aren\u2019t you? It\u2019s alright to be that way. Henry would have made a good monk. Well, he never made it you know? God had other plans for Henry. I\u2019ll tell you all about it one day, but it was very sad, and I was just beside myself when I got the news. It was a dark time, but I pulled through. That\u2019s the way it is when you have faith. God doesn\u2019t always take you out of the problems, but he always take you through them.<\/p>\n

I think you should give it a try Ricky. Go to the monastery and see that they make of you. Don\u2019t worry about loving it too much. If it seems attractive to you, then God is drawing you. He doesn\u2019t call you to do something you don\u2019t want to do\u2013not at first anyway. It\u2019s like marriage. Don\u2019t get married if you don\u2019t want to, but if you want to get married and do get married, then there will be a time when you wished you hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I expect it\u2019s the same in the monastery. You want to do it, then once you\u2019ve done it you wished you hadn\u2019t, and that\u2019s when the real fun begins. You know what Fr. Joe says, \u201cWe don\u2019t call it the monastery. We call it the moanastery\u2026\u201d But he doesn\u2019t really mean it. He loves being a monk, and if you go over there he\u2019ll look after you I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s not talk anymore about it. There\u2019s work to be done here, and when you\u2019re finished I\u2019ll drive you back to the college, and I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ll be ready for a strawberry milkshake and the drive in on the way back\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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