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

by Savannah Guthrie

Love. Presence. Praise. Grace. Hope. Purpose.

But the routine is meant to provide quiet and simple togetherness. Thirty seconds of space.

believing he is good and actively engaged in our lives and the world in the face of so much pain—that is the hard part.

God does not require us to ignore or gloss over the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past them.

In a season of close connection, God shored me up with wisdom and his Word; he provisioned me for a long journey, even one that I would at times choose to walk alone. Instead of feeling guilt for not keeping up with devout practices, imagining that God was disappointed or disgusted with me or had written me off entirely, what if I believed that what he was really doing was loving me the whole time?

Love like that takes root

A way to reimagine and rethink every circumstance, even those that disappoint us. Especially those.

God loving you. Seeing you, appreciating you, delighting in you. Knowing you, having compassion on yo...