SEEK25 “Road Sign”
One version of a childhood verse I still remember makes the claim, “The first’s the worst, the second’s the same. The third’s the best of any game!” Those lines came back to me several times during the first week of January while attending my third conference of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Called SEEK25, the massive gathering was held at the downtown Salt Palace Convention Center on January 1-5. When visitors to Booth #928, the Portsmouth Abbey vocation gathering spot, heard that I had attended SEEK23 and SEEK24, both held in St. Louis, they pressed me and asked how, in my opinion, the three conferences compared. It’s not really a fair question and I somehow turned the topic to other subjects. Like vocations.