Savannah Guthrie shares bittersweet Easter message as mother remains missing
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“Today” host Savannah Guthrie used an Easter message to reflect on faith, doubt and uncertainty as her mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing 63 days later.
The message was shared by Good Shepherd New York during a digital Easter gathering on YouTube; Here, Guthrie offered a thoughtful message about dealing with grief and unanswered questions during what he described as a difficult season.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen around 2 a.m. on Feb. 1 after she was believed to have been taken from her bedroom in Tucson, northern Arizona. Responding officers found a thin trail of blood drops extending from the front door to the edge of the driveway. Their back door was open and the doorbell camera was missing.
Investigators later obtained home security footage showing an unidentified masked man in the doorway. The trail of evidence appeared to end in the driveway, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
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Savannah Guthrie shares an emotional Easter message about faith, grief and uncertainty as her 84-year-old mother remains missing 63 days later. (Good Shepherd New York YouTube)
As Guthrie faced the uncertainty surrounding his mother’s disappearance, he acknowledged that Easter’s promise of hope and new life might seem distant to him.
“There are moments when that promise seems irrevocably distant, when life itself seems so much more difficult than death,” Guthrie said. “These moments of deep disappointment with God, a feeling of complete abandonment.”
Guthrie said that during his final “season of trial,” he questioned whether Jesus was experiencing the same kind of uncertainty he feels now, especially the pain of not knowing what will happen next or why suffering occurs.
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Savannah Guthrie poses with her mother, Nancy Guthrie, during a break from production while hosting NBC’s “Today Show” live from Australia. (Don Arnold/WireImage)
“I wondered — I questioned — whether Jesus actually experienced this particular wound that I felt, this grave and uniquely brutal wounding of not knowing, of uncertainty, of confusion, of hiding answers,” he said. “In those darkest moments, I thought, painfully and perhaps irreverently, that I had stumbled upon an emotion unknown to Jesus.”
He said his perspective began to change as he considered the period between the crucifixion and the resurrection; This was a period he described as often overlooked but central to understanding faith in times of uncertainty.
“What did Jesus really know after he died, after he breathed his last breath?” said Guthrie. “Did he think that the time he spent in the grave would be one day, two or a thousand years? Does the pain he suffered in the grave seem endless to him? Is it the torment of uncertainty? Is it that endless pain can be felt endlessly? Maybe he knew this feeling.”
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Savannah Guthrie visits the Today show at Rockefeller Plaza on Thursday, March 5, 2026 in New York City. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Guthrie said mindfulness helped him reframe his own experience, describing life as a process of existing “in the meantime” of a kind; This was a period marked by waiting, unanswered questions and the absence of a clear solution.
He said people can feel insecure, lost, abandoned, disappointed and forgotten in moments when faith calls them to trust in a future they cannot yet see.
Despite this struggle, Guthrie said his faith is grounded in the belief that God is present even without immediate answers, offering comfort not through certainty but through presence.
“Darkness is what makes this morning’s light so magnificent, blindingly beautiful,” Guthrie said. “It’s much brighter because it’s so needed.”
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“This morning I close my eyes and feel the sunlight,” he continued. “I see a bright vision of the day when the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, for they are one on earth as they are in heaven.”
“When we celebrate today, we celebrate that, and so do I,” he said. “I still believe. So I say it with conviction, Happy Easter.”
