“But what if I don’t want to be a nun?” I asked you later that night. “Why would you have to be a nun?” you asked. Nuns didn’t get a choice; that’s what Valerie Mitt said at CCD class. Her aunt didn’t have a choice. Her aunt was just sitting on some park bench, reading her book, minding her business, when God spoke to her. Called her to worship the Lord. And so she became a nun. For years after Grandma’s comment, I worried about God finding me like that, too. Whenever we were out in public, walking to the car or through the mall, I made sure to stay three steps behind you, so God would choose
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