Savannah Guthrie feels "deep disappointment with God" after her mother Nancy's disappearance.

The Today show presenter has been left fraught with worry after her 84-year-old mother went missing from her Arizona home on February 1, and police have been treating her disappearance as a kidnapping.

In an emotional message as part of Good Shepherd New York's digital Easter gathering on Sunday (05.04.26), she said: "Good morning, everybody. Happy Easter.

"And Easter is happy. It is flowers and pastels and baby bunnies. It is sunshine and joy and hope. It is rebirth and second chances and new life and fresh starts.

"It is the most important day of the year for all of us who believe, even more than Christ's birth, more than his death. His resurrection, his second birth into a permanent life, that is what is most crucial to us.

"His revival and resurrection means the same for us. 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.

"These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment for most of us, there will come a time in our life when these feelings hold sway."

The broadcaster noted that despite being taught that Jesus "experienced every single emotion that we humans can feel", her recent heartbreak has made her question "whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel"

She described it as a "grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld in those darkest moments".

She added: "But after Jesus died, after he breathed his last, what did he actually know on the cross? He cried out, 'My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?'

"That is the anguished cry of someone who does not know the answers. Where did his soul and his spirit go in those days in between? And what was he thinking?

"Did he think his time in the grave would be a day or two, or 1000 years in the grave? Does his agony seem indefinite to him? That torment of uncertainty, the way indefinite pain can feel eternal. Perhaps he did know this feeling after all."

She insisted that Christians must also it's "acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death" rather than the resurrection in isolation.

She added: "Perhaps this is too dark a message to share on Easter morning, but I have long believed that we miss out on fully celebrating resurrection if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death.

"It is the darkness that makes this morning's light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful. It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed."

Savannah recently admitted she believes Nancy is no longer alive after receiving a message from a higher power.

During an interview with her Today show colleague Hoda Kotb, Savannah cried as she explained: "Early on, I felt that I heard, one of the very few times in my life, I did hear God speak to me.

"As I said to myself: 'I can handle anything. I just can't handle not knowing ... I have to know'. And I heard a voice and it said: 'You do know where she is. She's with me.'

"So whether she's on this Earth still or whether she's in Heaven, I know where she is. I know who she's with. But we need to know."