Savannah Guthrie revealed she is ‘disappointed with God’ in her raw Easter message

Today Show host Savannah Guthrie shared a raw, personal message during her first Easter since her mother’s mysterious disappearance.

Emotion was evident in her trembling voice as she shared how she feels “disappointment” and “abandonment” as her mother’s disappearance, currently investigated as a kidnapping, drags on for over two months with no word on her condition.

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“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,” she said. “When life itself seems far harder than death. These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment. For most of us, there will come a time in our lives 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.”

“That his taking on the form of humanity made him not a distant observer to our pain, but a hands-on experiencer of it. Recently, though, in my own season of trial, I have wondered, I have questioned whether Jesus ever experienced this particular wound that I feel, grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion, and answers withheld,” Guthrie continued. “In those darkest moments, I thought, literally and perhaps irreverently, that I stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know. After all, don’t the gospel stories recount Jesus informing his disciples of his destiny, that he had been sent to die to ultimately be raised up? They didn’t get it, but he did. He at least knew his fate.”

“And so I thought, he never suffered this excruciating not knowing. It isn’t wrong to think such thoughts. To challenge our God with questions. God does not ask us to be stoics with standards of pain with zenlike remove or shallow sloganeering about the hard battles God gives to his toughest soldiers,” she added.

The search for Savannah Guthrie continues, as the family continues to signal their willingness to pay the ransom notes that have been sent.

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