If I had Know Pink was an Option.....

I found this photo on

PINTEREST

with no credit to the photographer. 

However,

if I had known when I was younger 

that this was an option,

I might have become a  Holy Spirit Sister of Adoration.

Who knew?

Pink Walls.

Pink Habits.

Have you ever given thought,

serious or not,

to becoming a 

consecrated religious?

I have and did consider this option as my vocation in life.

When I was 10, more than anything else in the world, I wanted to become a nun.

I saw myself wearing the habit.

I told our priest about this in confession.

He suggested I wait to make sure this was my vocation.

Even then, he reminded me that it was God's Will that mattered, not mine.

He was right.

I discovered boys at the end of my 5th grade year.

Out went the thoughts of religious life.

I can only assume, that, my dream of a vocation to the religious life was not God's Will for me.

When I married,

I always said that if my husband and I should divorce or if he would die,

I would become a nun.

I was serious about this.

Even late callings to the religious life are important.

When he died,

the thoughts of religious life surfaced again.

There were a few obstacles.

I wasn't sure I wanted to deal with them.

So, once again, I dismissed the thoughts of a life in the consecrated service of God.

I realize now,

this is not my calling.

God sent me some ideas so that I would think,

but,

in the end, 

to become a religious was not my vocation.

 However,

if I had seen these pink habits before I made that decision,

I might have changed my mind again.

How do you feel about religious life?

Have you considered this as a call for your vocation?

What is your vocation?