Post 2 - Discover Your Purpose

 

 

Post 2 - Discover Your Purpose

 

When the book, The Purpose Driven Life, was published, it quickly sold more than thirty million copies.  A lot of people were searching for a purpose.

I wasn’t.  Unlike those who bought that book, I had a purpose, or I thought I did.  I designed computer systems and wrote the instruction books for them.  I thought that was my purpose and I was satisfied with it, but the company where I worked was forced to downsize, and I was given an early retirement, too early.  I was not ready for it. 

Two friends and I invested a few thousand dollars in a business, and that became my new purpose.  For a brief time, I was happy with that, but I began to spend long hours at the new business, and even longer hours worrying because it was not working out as well as we expected.  It was losing money month after month, and I was becoming anxious. That was my retirement it was losing.

Then was when Virginia, my wife, said I needed a new purpose.  Our daughter had a different idea, she told me that I needed a break.  She said I needed to get away from the business for a while, far away.  She invited me and Virginia to join her on a vacation to Belize.  While we were gone, maybe the manager would make the business profitable.  That was the manager’s job, and if she did her job then I wouldn’t need to worry about the business anymore.

In this blog, I describe the trip and how it led me to discover the purpose I should have recognized years earlier, but I was too busy taking care of the problems that came with each day and I missed it.

I’m sure that has happened to a lot of people, we become too busy making money and paying bills, and we lose sight of our true purpose.

Fortunately, I was given a second chance.  Thank God for second chances!  Thank God for showing me a second time the purpose I should be following.

It’s never too late for a second chance! 

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