Purpose Driven Life

I have just begun reading The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. I’m on day 2 of a 40 day program. I have had this book for some time. Every once and a while I would look at it, but decide to wait to start it. Doesn’t that scream of a person who needs a purpose? I’ve always had a purpose in my life, but was it God’s purpose?

I retired at the beginning of the year from teaching (one of my jobs since I’m still writing). I think this is a great time to figure out what is my purpose of being here. I don’t think you are too old or young to take a good hard look at your life and figure that out–hence my starting the program now.

Day One–It starts with the Lord.
Day Two–God is love and created us because of that love.

Wow!! What powerful and humbling statements! This morning I read a quote in the text from Dr. Michael Denton, a scientist, that concluded, “All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition…that the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in this central fact.” Ever since I went to college and took two extensive science courses my freshman year, I have strongly felt that the sciences support the exist of God, not the other way around. How can all of this be random?

Anyway, has anyone else gone through The Purpose Drive Life journey? How did you feel about it? I’m eagerly waiting for Day Three.