From childhood onwards, Savannah Guthrie’s faith has always been of the utmost importance to her. Even when she was faced with adversity, nothing could turn her from trusting in God’s plan.
The famous television presenter could never have imagined the life she has built for herself and the many roles she will take on. But of the many opportunities that came her way, Today The show’s co-host, wife of Michael Feldman and mother to daughter Vala, 9, and son Charley, 7, never expected (or wanted) to write about her life. But when she was given the opportunity to put pen to paper about her faith about a year ago, she realized she finally had something to say.
“It just started coming out of me. Even before I signed the contract, I was writing and thinking, and the whole process was so exciting and exciting, and I felt so alive,” Guthrie, 52, told PEOPLE exclusively writing Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere, out today. “I felt like I was learning so much that even if there was never a book at the end of it, the process and the journey was so moving and personal and valuable. It felt, in a way, like something that was happening between me and God. ”
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Pictured is Savannah Guthrie’s new book ‘Mostly What God Does’.
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Guthrie — who is raising her children in an interfaith household with her husband, who is Jewish — says her own faith journey has had many ups and downs. She “doesn’t hold herself up as an example at all.”
“Actually, my life is full of loopholes and detours, mistakes and mistakes. That’s my faith path. But actually I think it’s most people’s faith path,” she continues. “Sometimes you have moments and periods of great faith, and sometimes you have moments of doubt and despair and disappointment. I had all those things, and the book is about that journey.”
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The Australian-born broadcaster’s “difficult, thrilling and exhilarating and heartbreaking” experience of writing her book led her to open up about a range of vulnerable subjects, including the loss of her father, Charles Guthrie, when she was 16, the death of her first marriage and her career journey before landing in Today. “I think when you read the book, you recognize that I’m definitely worried, and there’s no doubt about that. My faith was the biggest antidote to that,” she explains.
“It doesn’t mean that I don’t worry or that I sit around all day in a state of ecstasy without any worries,” she says. “No. It just means I’m taking my worries to God.”
When it comes to her personal and professional life today, Guthrie credits her constant faith in God for her many blessings.
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Savannah Guthrie.
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“I’m so calm and grateful. I’m sure there are things like, ‘Oh, we should interview this person or that person.’ But it has already exceeded all expectations I could have had for myself,” she says about her career. “My biggest dream for myself wasn’t even this. So how could I have hoped for more? I’m so grateful to be here. I know how blessed I am. I know how lucky I am.”
She adds that much of the book is about giving “credit where it’s due,” not only for her career, but also for the people who are by her side and the journey of faith she took to get here.
“I’m blessed and not because things have worked out in my career, although luckily they have. Or because I’m so blessed to have the family I’ve wanted for so long, and luckily I do,” she concludes. “I’m blessed because God is present to me and he loves me. And guess what? He loves you too. And that’s the whole reason I wrote the book. That’s it. I had something good to share and I just had to Share it.”
Book by Savannah Guthrie, Mostly what God doesit is now available wherever books are sold.
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