Since Nancy Guthrie has been missing for more than a month, her daughter, Savannah Guthrie, who has recovered from the grief of her mother’s alleged kidnapping, has shared a message on Easter.
Savannah Guthrie joined Good Shepherd New York’s digital Easter gathering Sunday morning to share a message of hope amid her mother’s unsolved kidnapping.
“Good morning, everyone. Happy Easter,” she said during an appearance at Good Shepherd New York’s digital Eastern gathering.
“And Easter is happy. It’s flowers and pastels and baby bunnies. It’s sunshine and joy and hope. It’s rebirth and second chances and new life and new beginnings. It’s the most important day of the year for all of us who believe, even more than the birth of Jesus Christ, even more than his death.”
She adds, “His resurrection, his second birth into enduring life – that is what is most important to us. His resurrection and resurrection are the same for us. 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 when that promise seems so far away, when life itself seems more difficult than death.”
“These moments of deep despair toward God, a feeling of complete abandonment – for most of us there will come a time in our lives when these feelings will take over.”
But amidst his raw reflection, Guthrie uncovers a startling personal chaos brewing inside him after his mother’s disappearance.
She begins by explaining that she was taught that “Jesus, in His short life, experienced every single emotion that we humans can feel.”
But questioning this belief after suffering through what she describes as a “season of trial”, the Today anchor says “did Jesus really experience this particular wound that I think, this severe and uniquely brutal hurt of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and withheld answers in those darkest moments.”
Guthrie, who has been off the air for two months, will return to her morning talk show on NBC on April 6.
