"A book that magnifies how God loves his people and how he wants us to love him."

This is a book that reiterates that our Father God is God of Love, Perfection, Forgiveness and Relationship.

The author wants to emphasize the Love of God to his creation as it was written in His word that He cares for us even before we are born. He planned everything in our life before we have our own wisdom and understanding about life. He creates every joy and sorrow that we will face. He knows when we will going to make every right decisions and mistakes. He put every flaws and greatness in us. Every person we meet, every places that we put our feet on, He writes it down. He knows everything, in and out, of who we are in his kingdom.
The author stresses out God's perfection. Indeed, our God is a God of perfection. He creates us to be His perfect children. We are not created to be a perfect human. But we are created to be the most unique person. He SHAPE us to be the person He wants us to be not the same with other creation. He wants us to live our perfect lives in his guidance and not to live or to have someone else's life or blessings. We are perfect in His eyes because he is full of joy when He created us. Our uniqueness fits in the puzzle when we are connected to other unique person or people. We are created to be in His perfect masterpiece. Yes, we are human with flaws, mistakes and sins, too many flaws , too many mistakes and too many sins. But it is the beauty of salvation that saves us. These flaws, mistakes and sins reminds us not to run away from God but to go to Him, admit our brokenness and humble ourselves. Being saved and humbled before God does not give us the right to be "higher" than other creations but it gives us a wisdom and understanding to be more accepting and loving to them. We love His creations because He loves His creations.
The author highlights how God forgives us. Even though we have not confess our sins before Him, our God forgives us. What a wonderful truth it is to have a forgiving God. However, this truth does not give us the privilege to do harm to His creation including our own self.
Each one of us wants a loving relationship. A person who understands us. A person who sees us like we are and knows us beyond our own understanding. Someone that listens to our cries and frustrations. Someone who enjoys our company. Someone who is happy and knows how to be happy. The author knows this person. Actually, we all know who he is. He is our Father God. Our God is a relational God. He wants to hear us. He wants to know our needs. Our desires. Our aspirations. Our weakness. Our mistakes. He wants to know everything in our life even though He already knows everything from our past, present and future. There will be times that we feel that He is far away, no presence of Him, but just call Him and He will be there.
God created us to fulfill His purpose in our lives, not our own purpose. Fulfillment of these purposes are the same as how He will develop our character. It will take time and experience. It is a process. Fulfilling these purposes in our lives is not a race towards the finish line. But a matter of answering the question, "Have we fulfill His purpose in our lives?" We are planned for God's pleasure. If we are overwhelmed with these purposes, we just have to take one step for now and that is to praise and honor God for what He has done in our lives.

We are carefully and wonderfully made with His love, who are we not to give love?

It's a helpful book in terms of personal development and Christian life - especially if you are not sure about your life goals or how to reach them. It's not a book to just read but to work with and best read with other people to get the most out of it.

This book has wonderful insights, terrific suggestions on how to live a better, more purposeful life. I enjoyed it very much, but knowing that I did not concentrate very well on it, I do plan to read it again later in the fall, using it as a daily devotional.

Read this with my mom and my brother, and so glad I did. I am super skeptical of books like this. But wow, I loved it. Highly recommend to everyone.

I needed this book this year. With all that is going on, with not being able to do the things I love, I needed some direction in life. This book was perfect, it brought me back to reality.

To Rick Warren: Very Well Said.

This book made me realize that a focused life is way more important than a busy life. It made me realize that we can live our lives in a less complicated manner and still please God. A God driven life is the true life.

I love it! :)

Warren's logic: Why do you live? To serve g*d! How do you know? It's in the bible!
Being rather skeptic, this puzzles me, a lot.
For those aiming to be a very devout Christian it may be a useful book.

While the philosophy and prompts for personal reflection were engaging, I didn't learn anything new from this book. Even organizing my thoughts through the exercises in the accompanying workbook and viewing these things from Rick Warren's perspective didn't really provide me with anything fresh to help me move forward with fresh direction and purpose. Maybe this is better for a type B person, instead of someone like me?

It is more about me than about the Majesty of God.

This book had been recommended to me by a lot of people when I started reading it. I was in a point in my life when I was thinking about my future a lot, so it was definitely the right time for reading this book.
The book gave me a lot of encouragement and determination the find God's plan for my life. There was especially one sentence that I kept repeating to myself: "Don't waist your life in a job that does not reflect your heart." (not a direct quote)
However, there were parts of the book that I read very quickly and didn't completely agree with. When I talk about this book to others, I usually tell them to be selective: take the good things and forget the rest.

Ideea cartii este una destul de buna, insa cu toate acestea nu este o carte care m-a incantat intr-un mod extraordinar.

Cartea este conceputa ca fiind un devotional pentru 42 de zile, insa capitolele, mie personal, mi se par destul de lungi pentru a fi citite in fiecare zi la timpul devotional.
Un alt lucru care nu mi-a placut este traducerea Bibliei pe care autorul o foloseste, The Message, de multe ori am remarcat faptul ca versetele erau semnificativ diferite fata de versetele din traducerea Cornilescu.

Cu toate acestea, desi unele idei trebuie luate cu sare si putin filtrate, unele capitole mi-au placut foarte mult si am reusit totusi sa identific lucruri foarte folositoare la care cu siguranta ma voi intoarce.

2,5-3/5 ⭐

"Don't give up -- grow up."
“You were carefully and thoughtfully designed by God to add to life on earth, not just take from it.”
One of the books that keep you more kotivated to live happily and do not give up. Because if you are living like a real human then you are doing your responsibility in world. Do not forget earth is a temporary residance.