The Today show cohosts reflected this morning on yesterday’s set visit by colleague Savannah Guthrie, whose mother Nancy, believed kidnapped, has been missing for more than a month.
Today‘s Craig Melvin said that the emotional off-camera reunion also included a prayer session. “You know, it was such a moving morning yesterday here in Studio 1a,” Melvin said during a segment this morning, “and one of the most moving parts came…when Dylan Dreyer, certified meteorologist and also apparently a pastor in training, led us in spontaneous prayer.”
Said Dreyer, “It felt like the right moment for all of us. We all feel so helpless during this situation. When I feel helpless, I pray, and we talk about how the Today show is a family, and here we were, each of us praying individually. Why not hold hands and send up one big prayer to God? Let’s ask for a miracle. He wants to feel needed, right? And so we asked for that miracle, and if you don’t ask, you don’t receive.”
“But I think we also needed peace and comfort,” Dreyer continued, “and prayer does that. And I think Savannah felt our love as a family. We gave that love to her was our gift to her.”
The prayer session also included the show’s crew members.
“There were 100 people in the room, and she came into the middle, no speech, just spoke from the heart, and said the most perfect words you could ever imagine, and looked every one of this family, in the eyes,” said Carson Daly, adding, “Yesterday was, I think, one of the most special days, not just in our lives professionally, but personally.”
Daly continued, “Her grace is second to none, under pressure, and her faith…I just can’t say enough incredible things about what an amazing spirit she is.”
Watch the this morning’s Today segment above.
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