Meet Paulie Gee. This guy is my hero today.
It’s Never Too Late to Make Pizza: Paulie Gee’s from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
Without knowing anything else about Paulie Gee, I would venture to guess that this is his way of responding to a vocation – that is, a call. I know vocation is not always so clear for many of us, and certainly, many in the world cannot even begin to entertain options because of forces beyond their control and capacity. But nevertheless, I believe that God calls each and every one of us towards certain loves, suffering and work. And I would almost never separate those three. Cause making pizza, at least good pizza, requires it.
In my own discernment of vocation, I’ll just say this. Though I’ve been a pastor for the past decade, the kind of pastor I’ve wanted to be has changed dramatically through the years. That is to say, my sense of vocation within the pastorate has evolved, transformed, maybe even matured over time. This frustrates me in the sense that vocation is not a destination to arrive at but a process to submit to and discern along the way. It also frees me (in light of the previous post) to not have to arrive at all.
If you want a good, quick, contemplative read on vocation, I highly recommend, Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak.
