What is the significance of Gifty's prayer journal in the novel, Transcendent Kingdom?

Gifty's prayer journal is significant not only because it is a symbol of her religious faith as a child, but because it is has now become a symbol of her desire for spirituality in her present and future. "I thought of myself as a lost apostle, my journal as a new book of the Bible" (125), she recalls. The journal is also a symbolic link between Gifty and her mother, as her mother was the one who suggested she write the journal in the first place as a way of communing with God outside of traditional prayer.