US reporter Savannah Guthrie has shared an emotional Easter Sunday message, admitting that she has felt “moments of deep disappointment with God” following the kidnapping of her mother, Nancy Guthrie.
In a video message for the Good Shepherd New York’s digital Easter gathering, which took place on Sunday (US time), the Today news anchor spoke about the importance of the religious holiday before admitting that she’s currently in her own “season of trial” as her mother remains missing.
“We celebrate today the promise of a new life that never ends in death. But, standing here today, I have to tell you, there are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away,” Guthrie said.
“When life itself seems far harder than death.”
“These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment,” Guthrie added.
“For most of us, there will come a time in our lives when these feelings hold sway.”
Guthrie went on to admit that she’s “questioned whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel, this grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld in those darkest moments”, and wondered if Jesus had questions for God before he died on the cross.
“But after Jesus died, after he breathed his last, what did he actually know on the cross? He cried out, ‘My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?’ That is the anguished cry of someone who does not know the answers,” Guthrie continued.
“Where did his soul and his spirit go in those days in between? And what was he thinking? Did he think his time in the grave would be a day or two, or 1000 years in the grave? Does his agony seem indefinite to him? That torment of uncertainty, the way indefinite pain can feel eternal. Perhaps he did know this feeling after all.”
The journalist admitted that her message might’ve been “too dark” for Easter morning. However, she said if we “do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain and death” people will “miss out fully on celebrating resurrection”.
“It is the darkness that makes this morning’s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful. It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed,” Guthrie said.
Per the Associated Press, authorities believe Nancy was abducted from her home, located in Tucson, Arizona, on January 31. During their investigation, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed that the blood found on the porch of Nancy’s home was hers.
Although the FBI were able to recover and release doorbell CCTV footage showing a possible perpetrator, there has been no further information or update regarding Nancy’s case, and she currently remains missing.
After two months, Guthrie is expected to return to the Today show.
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