{"id":12631,"date":"2026-04-12T21:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=12631"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:30:00","slug":"faith-amid-sunday-april-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/faith-amid-sunday-april-19-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Amid &#8211; Sunday, April 19, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Behold, thou\u00a0desirest\u00a0truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Psalm 51:6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps this is too dark a message to share on Easter morning.\u201d \u00a0This was the beginning of a conversation from Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC&#8217;s <em>TODAY, <\/em>about her faith amid the ongoing search for her mother on Easter Sunday. \u201cThese moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment&#8230;It\u2019s the darkness that makes this morning\u2019s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful. \u00a0It\u2019s all, the brighter because it is so desperately needed&#8230;When we celebrate today, this is what we celebrate. And I celebrate too. \u00a0I still believe. \u00a0And so, I say with conviction, happy Easter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Savannah\u2019s candid bravery highlights my personal discovery that faith isn&#8217;t the absence of doubts, questions, and periods of disappointment and anger with God. Faith is the unwillingness to stop trusting God despite unknowns and harsh realities. \u00a0It\u2019s demonstrating the expression: \u201cwhen the rubber meets the road\u201d by choosing to continue a path that seems uncertain and at times unguided.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s the recognition that retreating would create an unbearable loss.<\/p>\n<p>Are you amid a rough patch or still dealing with past pains? \u00a0Admitting how you feel, full disclosure, doesn\u2019t lessen you as a Christian. \u00a0Faith includes the assurance of knowing that God seeks \u201ctruth in the inward parts,\u201d and that His love isn\u2019t conditioned by transparency, no matter how revealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold, thou\u00a0desirest\u00a0truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom \u2013 Psalm 51:6 \u201cPerhaps this is too dark a message to share on Easter morning.\u201d \u00a0This was the beginning of a conversation from Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC&#8217;s TODAY, about her faith amid the ongoing search for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/faith-amid-sunday-april-19-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Faith Amid &#8211; Sunday, April 19, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12635,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12631\/revisions\/12635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}