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“Today” host Savannah Guthrie used an Easter message to show faith, doubt and uncertainty as her mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing for 63 days.
The message was shared by Good Shepherd New York during the Easter digital meeting on YouTube, where Guthrie presented a profound message about navigating grief and unanswered questions during what he described as a difficult season.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen after she was believed to have been taken from her bedroom north of Tucson, Arizona, around 2 a.m. on February 1. Responding officers found a trail of blood droplets running from the front door to the curb. Her back doors were open, and the door camera was missing.
Investigators later obtained home security footage showing a masked man at the door, who has not been identified. The trail of evidence appeared to end on the road, and his whereabouts are unknown.
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Savannah Guthrie shares a touching Easter message about faith, grief and uncertainty after her 84-year-old mother went missing after 63 days. (Good Shepherd New York YouTube)
Guthrie admitted that Easter’s promise of hope and new life can feel far away as she deals with the uncertainty of her mother’s disappearance.
“There are times when that promise seems so far away, when life itself seems more difficult than death,” Guthrie said. “These are times of great disappointment with God, a sense of total abandonment.”
Guthrie said that in his recent “season of trial,” he doubted that Jesus faced the kind of uncertainty he feels now, especially the pain of not knowing what’s coming next or why suffering happens.
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Savannah Guthrie stands next to her mother Nancy Guthrie during a production break while hosting NBC’s “Today Show” live from Australia. (Don Arnold/WireImage)
“I have wondered – I have asked – if Jesus ever had this wound that I feel, this painful cruelty of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld,” she said. “In those darkest moments I have thought, painfully and perhaps irreverently, that I was overcome with a feeling that Jesus did not know.”
He said his perspective began to change as he thought about the time between the crucifixion and the resurrection, a time he described as often overlooked but crucial to understanding faith in times of uncertainty.
“After Jesus died, after he breathed his last, what did he really 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 pain seem endless to him? That suffering of uncertainty? How can chronic pain be felt forever? Maybe he knew this feeling.”
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Savannah Guthrie attends the Today Show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Guthrie said the realization helped him reframe his experience, describing life as existing in a sort of “now” — a time marked by waiting, unanswered questions and the absence of a clear solution.
He said in those times, people can feel uncertain, lost, abandoned, disappointed and forgotten, as faith calls them to trust in the future they have not seen.
Despite that struggle, Guthrie said his faith remains rooted in the belief that God exists even without immediate answers, offering comfort not in certainty, but in presence.
“It’s the darkness that makes the morning light so beautiful, so strangely beautiful,” Guthrie said. “It’s so bright because it’s so needed.”
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“So I close my eyes this morning and I feel the sunlight,” he continued. “I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth pass away because there is one on earth as in heaven.”
“When we celebrate today, this is what we celebrate, and I celebrate,” he said. “I still believe. And so I say with confidence, happy Easter.”
