An Easter message took on deeply personal meaning for Savannah Guthrie, who spoke candidly about grief and uncertainty while her mother remains missing more than two months after her disappearance.
According to Fox News, during a digital gathering hosted by Good Shepherd New York and shared on YouTube, the Today co-anchor reflected on faith in what she described as a painful and unresolved chapter of her life.
Her mother, Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen in Tucson in the early hours of Feb. 1. Authorities believe she may have been taken from her bedroom around 2 a.m.
Investigators responding to the home discovered troubling signs, including a thin trail of blood droplets leading from the front door to the driveway. Back doors were found propped open, and a doorbell camera had been removed.
Security footage later showed a masked individual at the home’s doorstep. The person has not been identified, and the trail of evidence appeared to stop at the driveway. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
Against that backdrop, Guthrie used Easter to wrestle with questions of faith.
“There are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away, when life itself seems far harder than death,” she said. “These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment.”
She described her current experience as a “season of trial,” admitting she has questioned whether even Jesus Christ endured the same kind of uncertainty she now faces.
“I have wondered – 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,” she said. “In those darkest moments I have thought, bitterly and perhaps irreverently, that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know.”
Her perspective began to shift as she reflected on the period between the crucifixion and resurrection, describing it as a time often overlooked but central to understanding faith.
“After Jesus died, after he breathed his last, what did he actually know?” Guthrie said. “Did he think his time in the grave would be a day or two or a thousand 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.”
Guthrie said that realization helped her reframe her own situation as living in a “meantime” — a space filled with unanswered questions and waiting.
Still, she emphasized that her faith remains intact.
“It is the darkness that makes this morning’s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful,” she said. “It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed.”
“So I close my eyes this morning and I feel the sunshine,” she continued. “I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth pass away because they are one on earth as it is in heaven.”
“When we celebrate today, this is what we celebrate, and I celebrate, too,” she said. “I still believe. And so I say with conviction, happy Easter.”
