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

God Loves Us All For Real!
I sit here in tears as I tried to read this book with all that is going on with this author, Savannah Guthrie’ dear sweet and cherished mom. I saw the book when all this took place and thought I have to have that one! I go to order it up and here I already have it. I don’t watch Savannah so I must have just seen one of the shows where she was promoting or something and bought it. I was a Tucson girl ( Davis Monthan Air Force Base Hospital, born for $8.00 dollars in 1953 ) or better known now as an older lady. I read by day and night! I looked and saw that when the book was released I was in the hospital and didn’t realize it was delivered.. This BOOK IS A GOD SEND AND THIS AUTHOR IS FROM GOD! No I am not speaking of all the little gods we have running around here trying to tell the other how it is and how they should be living and breathing… laughing… Savannah is REAL and she knows our Lord and Savior better than most. She is a breathe of Fresh Air just as Jesus was when the hungry and the dying were there in the streets of His time here, he was a blessing and so is she. You must pick up this book and read it complete and ponder the goodness coming through the pages, ponder Jesus standing in front of you and the love he has for all of us. This book will stay with me till my days are up and I will read it again and again.. You will love it too, God does mostly love us, what an overwhelming thing to think about, it brings joy to my heart and it will to yours also.. There isn’t any of this human gods stuff about you must or you should or you won’t go to heaven etc etc etc I have been through it all and I laugh as I know who God is! Always have! Thank You, Savannah and Thanks always to Amazon

A great read in spirituality
A Review by John R. Amos, JCD of Mostly What God Does: Reflections of Seeking and Finding His love Everywhere by Savanna Guthrie.This is a good book on spirituality written in a whimsical style that is not overdone. Its teachings are sound. Though from a Protestant Christian perspective, many of other faiths and traditions can profit from reading this work. Spoiler alert: The book barely mentions and hence does not detail the difficult events from which its lessons were derived. It is not a tell-all autobiography. It sticks to the point of noting how spirituality helps us live better lives despite inevitable human suffering.Rather than providing a summary, here are my favorite quotations—the author in her own words.1) “Mostly what God does is love you. To believe this about God is the essence of faith: giving God the benefit of the doubt in a world that invites cynicism and despair. …. It is powerful when we look at the events of our lives in this light.”2) “Going through deep crises, profound adversity…can be existential threats to your belief, or they can be extraordinary teachers.”3) “Knowledge of and belief in the deep love of God is how we come to love ourselves. …. This love is how we begin to…see ourselves as God sees us.”4) “God’s feelings for us have nothing to do with our feelings toward him. …. We cannot do or say anything to make him love us more—or less.”5) “The only thing harder than believing that ‘mostly what God does is love you’ is maintaining that belief.”6) “God is always communicating here in the present tense.”7) God’s telephone number is Jeremiah 3:33. “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”8) “If we want to recognize God’s voice, an intimate connection is vital. …. We must do life with him, like a baby does with Mom. ….(W)hen I hear God’s voice, it is usually saying something I never expected to hear…. It is foreign to me, consistent with who God is, echoes the Bible, and doesn’t always tell me what I want to hear. …. In its simplest form, God is always calling. …. And always, boiled down to its very essence, he is saying one thing: ‘Come with me.’”9) “Lifting up the people I love before the God I trust draws me closer to him and to them.”10) “God tells us to praise him not for what it does for him but for what it does for us.”11) “Sometimes it’s good to read the Psalms just to feel better about our own level of drama and navel-gazing.”12) “I learned to trust God not because the terrible thing never happened but because it did. …. I realized that the source of my mistrust—my fear of the bad circumstances, my fear of calamity and doom—was far worse than any actual bad thing that ever happened.”13) “God, over time, works things out in the direction of closeness to him. His trajectory is of ever-increasing intimacy and communion with him.”14) “Seeing events over a long passage of time, with the benefit of maturity and perspective, is the closest humans can come to understand how God works and how he answers a prayer.”15) “…(T)he joy of faith isn’t just a fleeting, emotional euphoria, a high…. It is also an intellectual joy: the excitement…of understanding something new and marvelous, thought provoking and challenging.”16) “…(T)o ask for a blessing means simply asking for more of God. …. When I pray to God to bless someone I love, I am asking him to be present and involved—not necessarily to dictate a certain result.”17) “The picture of mercy. That is how our heavenly Father embraces us.”18) “Real internal change does not come at the point of a weapon or the threat of eternal damnation. It comes upon glimpsing, and then absorbing, the wholly unmerited and extravagantly generous expression of his astonishing grace.”19) “If we can’t confront the truth about ourselves—what’s good and what just isn’t—then we are likely to avoid ourselves, distract ourselves, anesthetize ourselves.”20) “Our God is not a God of happy talk. …. Our God is a firm and straightforward truth teller. …. God remains kind and loving even when talking to us about an area of our lives that needs to change. ….(C)onfession is not meant to be a ‘cosmic beatdown’ or an occasion for ‘morbid introspection.’ It is simply being accountable for the ways in which we fall short of love.”21) “Doubt is just faith being worked out, like a muscle.”22) “In the end, in this life anyway, we cannot know if our faith is correct or if it is sadly misplaced. But we can believe. And I have concluded that believing is, at the very least, a better way to live.”23) “God doesn’t cause pain, but he does turn our pain into promise.”24) “May we all simply exude the sweet aroma that is a telltale sign of time spent with God: goodness, kindness, and love.”25) “…(T)here is no such thing as a wasted opportunity—not if you are determined to make something of it.”26) “Comfortable is not where the action is. …. To discover your purpose, you probably need to get uncomfortable. …(T)he most fruitful seasons of blossoming and growth are always, always, inevitably, on the other side of risk….on the other side of your fear…. When we step out of our comfort zones, we step into our needs. This is where God gets a chance to do his thing.”27) “Even our wrong decisions can be redeemed…. This choice or that choice isn’t the definitive end or only possible beginning . …. This is a great moment for God to share. Invite him into your chaos. Faith is believing God will take you where you’re meant to go.”28) ….(L)earn to make friends with your troubles—make them your teachers, instead of your tormentors. Or imagine they’re rescuing you, pointing you in a different direction, to what’s truly meant for you.”29) “What’s my purpose?… I believe we feel in sync with ourselves and with God when we do what we are uniquely suited to do for something meaningful, in service to something or someone greater than ourselves.”30) “I am congenitally fearful, guilty, and worried—ever anxious that I am, at any and all times, mere moments away for calamity, my comeuppance, my good fortune to end, for me to get what I surely deserve.”31) “The only thing I know, the only sense I can make of it, is that God gave me these blessings not to keep or board or store away for a rainy day but to share.”All of these thirty-one points provide worthwhile material for meditation, which the author encourages throughout her book. She provides appropriately interesting contexts as well.

Anyone who buys this book and has an interest in God. or would like to gain an insight into the life of a very popular, and well-known TV personality, will not be disappointed.This book is honest, thought-provoking, insightful, humorous and down-to-earth. It is a book, that after you have read it, you will likely want to read again. And if you are like me, you will also want to buy a copy for your best friend. Ms. Guthrie offers some very insightful suggestions for ways we can improve our relationship with the Lord.Anyone who reads this book cannot help but end up having a huge respect for and admiration of Ms. Guthrie. I should also mention that she has a very well-developed sense of humour.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone. It is like a book of essays versus a novel. Well written in down to earth language.