TODAY Show anchor Savannah Guthrie shared a heartbreaking message as part of the Good Shepherd New York’s digital Easter gathering amid the ongoing search for her 84-year-old mother Nancy, which has gone on for more than to months.
“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,” Savannah said. “When life itself seems far harder than death.”
“These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment,” she continued. “For most of us, there will come a time in our life when these feelings hold sway.”
“Recently though, in my own season of trial, I have wondered,” Savannah added. “I have 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, I have thought bitterly and perhaps irreverently, that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know.”
“It isn’t wrong to think such thoughts, to challenge our God with questions,” she said, noting that she wanted to fully acknowledge the feeling of pain and loss.
Savannah revealed that she plans to officially return to the TODAY Show on Monday (April 6) during an emotional three-part interview regarding her mother’s disappearance.
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