Savannah Guthrie delivers emotional Easter message as she searches for mum Nancy, ‘The cruelty of not knowing hurts…’ | Video

“I saw a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth passed away, for they became one, on earth as they are in heaven,” Savannah said at the end of her Easter message at the Church of the Good Shepherd in New York. “As we celebrate today, that’s what we celebrate, and I celebrate. I still believe. So I say firmly, ‘Happy Easter.'”

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“But recently, in my own time of trial, I’ve wondered and questioned whether Jesus actually experienced this particular wound that I felt,” she said. “This is a severe and unique cruelty caused by ignorance, uncertainty, confusion and lack of answer.”

“In those darkest moments,” she added, “I thought painfully, perhaps irreverently, that I had stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know.”

Savannah said there is nothing wrong with “challenging our God with questions” through which “doors of revelation will emerge, imparting truth and wisdom.”

One comfort for believers, she continued, is that “our God feels these feelings from a human perspective.”

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“Maybe it’s too dark a message to share on Easter morning, but I’ve always believed that if we don’t acknowledge the sense of loss, pain, and death, we miss the opportunity to fully celebrate the resurrection,” Savannah said. “It’s the darkness that makes the light of this morning so majestic and so beautiful.”

“So this morning I closed my eyes and I felt the sun,” she added.

Savannah spoke the day before she is scheduled to return to the “Today” show.

Nancy was last seen just before 10pm on January 31, when she had dinner with her daughter Anne and her son-in-law Tommaso Scioni. A suspect in her disappearance has not yet been named.