Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

by Savannah Guthrie

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Notes From Your Bookseller

The perfect mix of humor, heart and intelligence, Savannah Gutherie's debut will resonate with readers of the faith-based work of Dana Perino and Maria Shriver. This is perfect for anyone ready to engage in the real and practical ways God loves.

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and "does not require us to ignore... the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it." This openhearted offering inspires. - Publishers Weekly

Mostly what God does is love you.

If we could believe this, really believe this, how different would we be? How different would our lives be? How different would our world be?

If you ever struggle with your connection to God (or whether you even feel connected to a faith at all!), you're not alone. Especially in our modern world, with its relentless, never-ending news cycle, we can all grapple with such questions. Do we do that alone, with despair and resignation? Or do we make sense of it with God, and with hope? In these uncertain times, could believing in the power of divine love make the most sense?

In this collection of essays, Savannah Guthrie shares why she believes it does. Unspooling personal stories from her own joys and sorrows as a daughter, mother, wife, friend, and professional journalist, the award-winning TODAY show coanchor and New York Times bestselling author explores the place of faith in everyday life.

Sharing hard-won wisdom forged from mountaintop triumphs, crushing failures, and even the mundane moments of day-to-day living, Mostly What God Does reveals the transformative ways that belief in God helps us discover real hope for this life and beyond.

A perfect companion to your morning cup of coffee, this incisive volume—not a memoir but a beautiful tapestry of reflections crafted as a spiritual manual—includes:

• a fresh, biblically rooted look at six essentials of faith: love, presence, grace, hope, gratitude, and purpose;
• an honest exploration of questions, doubts, and fears about the love of God;
• a dose of encouragement for the faith-full, the faith-curious, and the faith-less; and
• …and much more.

This deeply personal collection is designed to engage the practical ways that God loves you—not just the world, but you—and to inspire you to venture down a path of faith that is authentic, hopeful, destiny-shaping, and ultimately life-changing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400341122
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	02/20/2024
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	680
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Savannah Guthrie is the co-anchor of NBC News’ TODAY, NBC News’ chief legal correspondent and a primary anchor for the network’s election coverage. She was named cohost of TODAY in 2012.

Savannah is a graduate of Georgetown Law, and a New York Times bestselling author for her book Princesses Wear Pants and the sequel Princesses Save the World. She is the executive producer of the Netflix show “Princess Power,” based on the book series. Savannah is married to communications consultant Mike Feldman and the couple has a daughter, Vale, and a son, Charley.

Editorial Reviews

12/11/2023

Today coanchor Guthrie (coauthor of the picture book Princesses Save the World) makes her adult debut with a poignant account of the role that religious faith has played in her life. Raised in a sin-obsessed Baptist church, Guthrie grew up burdened with intermittent guilt for “being shallow, for being ambitious... for not being more forward in my faith.” In her 30s, she was stuck in an unhappy marriage when it hit her “like a comet” that God “was, in fact, in the midst of rescuing me.” The realization sparked a renewed faith in Jesus’s love (“Mostly what God does is love us,” she writes; therefore, he “truly intends us to love ourselves”). From there, Guthrie explores prayer as a method of processing “feelings and emotions and concerns in the presence of God”; doubt as “faith being worked out, like a muscle”; and everyday kindness as a “way we transmit the love of God,” even if it’s just by “look someone in the eye, offer our coat, or invit a stranger to sit with us.” Through her candidness about the challenges she’s tackled—including the death of her often “mercurial and terrifying” father when she was 16 and her abbreviated first marriage—Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and “does not require us to ignore... the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it.” This openhearted offering inspires. Agent: Cait Hoyt, CAA. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

'Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and 'does not require us to ignore . . . the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it.' This openhearted offering inspires.'—Publishers Weekly

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