Vocation is for adults. whether or not it should be or not, it is. Grade school students have no idea what vocation is, High school students begin thinking about vocation (knowingly or not), college students search for and pursue vocation, and adults either have found vocation, or have not. I think i like what Lewis says in Learning in Wartime better than what Plantinga says. So much of life is completely pointless, and when viewed properly, all of life is pointless. Nothing is ever normal, and it never should be. In Lewis' view, humanity is pretty pessimistic. Without vocation and without God, life isn't worth living, normal or not.
At the end of the discussion, aren't we all called as Christians to be first and foremost bearers of God's image and sharers of his Love? This is our vocation. it doesn't matter where we learn, it doesn't matter how mixed up our environments are, it doesn't matter where we live, just as long as we're sharing God's love and bearing his image in the best way we know how. This is our vocation.
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You said that when viewed properly all of life is pointless. I would like to understand you more here. What is this proper view of life that makes it pointless to live? I personally feel that everything else aside, God has me on this earth with a purpose and a mission, and that makes life important and point"full"(for lack of a better word.:-))
You bring up a really good point too. First and foremost we should be Christians. Not students, or doctors, lawyers, actors, engineers...but Christians. In the end, that's all we need to be.
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