Post 4 - The Getaway

Post 4 - The Getaway

 

This is Post 4 of the blog telling how I found a new purpose for my life.  The story begins at Post 1, if you have not read that, go there before reading this post.

Earlier, I told you that I thought I knew my purpose and I was satisfied with it, but then I was given an early retirement and I invested my savings in a business.  It began losing a lot of money and I became very anxious, that was my retirement it was losing!

Virginia, my wife, said I needed a new purpose.  Our daughter had a different idea, she said I needed to get away from the business for a while and invited us to go with her on a vacation to Belize. 

While there, we visited the ruins of an ancient Mayan city and its pyramid.  The following photo shows Virginia at the top of the pyramid overlooking the city.  

 

 

Most people have heard of the Mayans, but know little about them.  Those ancient people built a large and powerful empire, then suddenly walked away from their magnificent cities and disappeared from history.  Nobody knows why, that is the famous Mayan mystery. 

They did not abandon thatched huts in a jungle, as I imagined before my getaway to Belize.  Notice the remains of a thousand year old palace in the distance behind Virginia.  As you can see, the city was planned well, with a plaza running from the pyramid to the palace.  It reminded me of the plaza at the center of our nation’s capital.

Our Mayan guide told us that ‘evil spirits’ lived in the abandoned city.  That strange tale had been passed down in his nearby village for an unknown number of generations.  I am a folklore enthusiast, and I learned long ago that every folklore tale contains at least a scrap of truth.  I wanted to find the scrap of truth in this ‘evil spirits’ tale, but I could not pursue it that day.  Our bus needed to rush us back to the ship, it would leave in a few hours.

That folklore tale led to a new theory for the reason the cities were abandoned.  It’s the beginning of my story about how I discovered my purpose.

The story is exciting, I promise you that.  It’s like an Indiana Jones adventure, searching through palaces and temples that had been abandoned for a thousand years and swallowed by the tropical jungle.  Not only did I find the scrap of truth in that Mayan folklore tale, I also discovered the purpose God intended for me, a purpose he had revealed to me years before but I did not notice it at the time.

That’s easy to do, to miss a sign placed conspicuously before us because we are going about our busy lives.  I’m confident that has happened to others besides me.  My story tells how I corrected the problem, how I discovered my purpose and how others can also.  It’s easy, and it will not cost you any money, only a little time.  You don’t have to go to Belize, as I did, you can do it at home.  All you have to do is read this blog, it tells the entire story and the principles I learned while seeking my purpose.

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To continue, scroll down or go to Post 5.