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

by Savannah Guthrie

Blank space. Quiet. Nothingness. This is where God has the greatest opportunity to do his thing.

I have always believed in God. But I have not always found it easy to believe that he is unfailingly good, or at least well-intentioned toward me.

God loves us, and his love is contagious. If we stick close to him, we can’t help but catch it.

This doesn’t mean your prayer is instantly answered or that you reopen your eyes and feel better or different. Prayer is a success simply if you do it. Because whether you perceive it right then and there or not, you are building something together with God.

when I hear God’s voice, it is usually saying something I never expected to hear him say.

Have you ever noticed how mundane concerns can take on outsized proportion when we lie in our beds, at our most vulnerable?

On nights like those, sometimes I close my eyes and draw out each line of my psalm, diverting my anxious thoughts by visualizing each scene: the grassy field, the trickling stream.

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.

We cannot simultaneously believe in a loving God and believe that the same God would cause suffering in some calculated effort to teach even the most essential of lessons.

He promises to make good out of bad. He promises to transform what is wrong into something that is right. That is an act of God.

The disciples believed, but they doubted. Belief and unbelief both in one short sentence. Does anything better encapsulate what it’s like to be human?