Rereading Purpose Drive Life with my Best Friend: It all starts with God by Rick Warren

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I was thinking of someone whom i can be accountable to as i am rereading this book, and I thought of my best friend, Aicel ðŸ™‚ so she has no choice but to read whatever... 

I remember when i was in highschool, i was so inggit with my brother kasi someone gave him this book, sabi nya i shouldn't buy daw, it has to be a gift daw from someone and that i should read it with someone... so never ako bumili, pero lagi ko na sya nakikita sa book store, tapos i would always wish that someone would think of giving this to me - and no one did until this day --- nakita ko sa book shelf ko na i have 2 PDL books - the old version and this new version. And it's weird because i couldn't even remember who gave this to me, when i waited so long for someone who would. I have read na the entire book in 2013, and now i feel like reading it all over. It never grows old on me.


So today I shared with Aicel just page 1 – "It all starts with God"


I had a wrong vision of success when I was young. I thought I was living my life kasi (honestly this was how I perceived myself before) I was beautiful, I was intelligent, I was famous, I got my family, I got boys around, pretty much I had everything but money. So ang goal ko, when I was young, was to be rich, and then it’ll be it! That’s success. But I was wrong.

 

Success is doing what God wants you to do and doing it for the Lord, His ways and His will. Sometimes I feel like I wasted years not living the way God wanted me to. And now I want just to share that, in God’s eyes yes I am, but beauty is fleeting and in a worldly sense, I may not be as gorgeous as how I thought I was, my academic intelligence may have helped me but it doesn’t mean anything to my success – I would say I am earning not super HIGH but enough to provide for my needs and sometimes my wants. But I have Jesus and I am desiring to please Him in everything that I do. It does start with God and it will end with God and as we know, with God there is no end so I am excited to live my life daily knowing that God will direct my path to whatever or wherever from the day that He allowed me to meet Him personally 'til eternity.

 

So, the question, where do I want to be? My answer is, I want to be where God wants me to be – regardless if it is painful.

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