Savannah Guthrie delivered a deeply personal and emotional message this Easter, opening up about grief, faith, and uncertainty as she marked the holiday without her mother for the first time.
The âTodayâ co-anchor recorded a heartfelt video for the Good Shepherd New York churchâs digital Easter gathering, offering a bittersweet reflection shaped by her recent loss.
Guthrie Opened Up About Feeling Disappointment With God
âWe 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. When life itself seems far harder than death,â Guthrie said. âThese moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment.â
She continued, âFor most of us, there will come a time in our life when these feelings hold sway. In our tradition, we are taught to take comfort in the fact that our friend Jesus in his short life experienced every single emotion that we humans can feel⦠not a distant observer to our pain, but a hands-on experienced of it.â
Still, Guthrie admitted that her own grief led her to question that belief.
âRecently though in my own season of trial 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,â she shared.
âIn those darkest moments I have thought bitterly and perhaps irreverently that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know,â she added, reflecting on the pain of uncertainty following her motherâs disappearance.
Guthrie Recalled the Moment That Made Her Perspective Change
But Guthrie said her perspective shifted as she reflected on the final moments of Jesusâ life.
She pointed to his words on the crossââmy God my God why have you forsaken meââas evidence of shared human anguish.
âThat is the angst cry of someone who does not know the answers,â she said.
Guthrie went on to describe the period between the crucifixion and resurrection, wondering about the weight of that unknown.
âA day or two or a thousand years. In the grave did his agony seem indefinite to him,â she continued. âThat torment of uncertainty. The way indefinite pain can feel.â
Ultimately, she arrived at a place of understanding.
âPerhaps he did know this feeling after all,â she said.
âAs humans living on this earth now, we are all suspended in that moment of uncertainty. Not 3 days, but thousands of years between his cross and our resurrection with him,â Guthrie added.
Through her candid reflection, Guthrie offered a message that resonated far beyond Easterâone rooted in honesty, faith, and the shared experience of navigating grief without all the answers.
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