Choose a vocation and train for it like an apprentice

Gideon Strauss's legthy review of Calvin Seerfeld's 5 directives for christian artists has been giving me plenty to think about. Seerfeld states:

2. Conceive art as work and undergo its training like a trade.

For the past ten years I have been through some significant vocational upheaval - and consequently I have not settled on a "trade" that would be worth training. I reflected about that upheaval with the intention of submitting to Re:Generation quarterly the month before they folded. What I wrote is here. But within the last year things are starting to become clear. Much like the Collegiate range in the picture at the top of this page, a reality is starting to emerge toward which to hike. The path ahead down this mountain and into the valley is clear, but then there is a choice and a fairly clear decision. In the clear notion that questions of "being" are so much more important than questions of "doing" - we are embarking on the world harvest "sonship by phone" discipleship process. We are setting aside the vocational questions and picking up the more essentail spiritual questions. And then the question in the valley becomes: Do we choose a vocational change and move toward the pastorate - going to seminary (training in the trade) and moving ahead in life that way? or do we continue expressing cultural leadership in corporate web service building and management, and more fully start pursing apprenticeship in that trade. I'm looking forward to the path that God takes us up the Collegiate range