The Daily Light Journal: A Bible Study for Busy People

When Lotz was 10 years old, her mother (Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham) gave her a copy of Samuel Bagster's classic 1794 devotional Daily Light. Ever since, the devotional has been a part of Lotz's spiritual life, and has become more meaningful with each passing year. Here, she encourages readers to make Bagster's devotional their own by pairing his daily readings with their own journal entries, and provides space on each page for readers to reflect, think aloud and pour out their hearts to God. Lotz provides the questions for each day (e.g., ""What do these verses teach you about prayer, and how can you apply them to yourself?""), and challenges readers to actively meditate on their spiritual status. But because the book follows the format of the original so faithfully (all Scripture from the King James Version, with no cutesy personal anecdotes), there's little of Lotz other than those jumping-off questions, a depersonalization that some readers will find refreshing and others disappointing.