by Savannah Guthrie

One does not often think of learning spiritual lessons from celebrities, yet I learned a great deal from this one. Guthrie’s honesty about her life and her growing relationship with God spoke to my heart. This well-known news commentator encourages all of us to seek and find God’s love everywhere.

The book is divided into six parts: Love, Presence, Praise, Grace, Hope, and Purpose. She said she thought about calling the book “Six Easy Pieces” which was the title of a piano book she had as a child, but then she realized the six pieces were actually not-so-easy pieces. Each part takes time, thought and prayer on our part in addition to the spiritual part that God does in our lives.

Guthrie provides a glimpse into her personal life as she uses her own life experiences to illustrate each piece of what it take to have a good relationship with God. We do not develop this relationship on our own power. Every part of the list is MOSTLY what God does in us as we learn to live in a deeper relationship with Him. She is open and honest about her faults and her failures in her journey.

Each chapter has blank pages which can be used as a personal journal as you read. They are to as she says “remind us to sit with whatever thought have risen within us. Blank space. Quiet. Nothingness. This is where God has the greatest opportunity to do his thing.”

I highly recommend this book as a personal devotional tool or as a text for a small group study.