Savannah Guthrie admits 'deep disappointment with God' in Easter message amid mom Nancy's disappearance
Savannah Guthrie shared a powerful video message with the parish of the Good Shepherd New York church on Easter amid the search for her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie.
"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, when life itself seems far harder than death," Savannah continued, admitting to "moments of deep disappointment with God" and a "feeling of utter abandonment" as the search for her 84-year-old mother passes into its second month.
As that search has stretched from days to weeks to months, with very few promising new leads being overturned, Savannah continued to detail her struggle with faith.
"For most of us, there will come a time in our life when these feelings hold sway," she said in her video message. In those moments, "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."
But Savannah testified that her own feelings of grief have been so overwhelming: "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. In those darkest moments, I've thought bitterly and perhaps irreverently that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know."
She wondered whether the Christian tradition's messiah ever "suffered this excruciating not knowing."
https://ew.com/savannah-guthrie-admits-d...e-11943153
But why can't she see that Jesus is simply testing her faith by letting her mom get abducted?
Savannah Guthrie shared a powerful video message with the parish of the Good Shepherd New York church on Easter amid the search for her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie.
"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, when life itself seems far harder than death," Savannah continued, admitting to "moments of deep disappointment with God" and a "feeling of utter abandonment" as the search for her 84-year-old mother passes into its second month.
As that search has stretched from days to weeks to months, with very few promising new leads being overturned, Savannah continued to detail her struggle with faith.
"For most of us, there will come a time in our life when these feelings hold sway," she said in her video message. In those moments, "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."
But Savannah testified that her own feelings of grief have been so overwhelming: "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. In those darkest moments, I've thought bitterly and perhaps irreverently that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know."
She wondered whether the Christian tradition's messiah ever "suffered this excruciating not knowing."
https://ew.com/savannah-guthrie-admits-d...e-11943153
But why can't she see that Jesus is simply testing her faith by letting her mom get abducted?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
