On Tuesday of this week just before sunset a powerful 7 magnitude earthquake rocked the island country of Haiti. You have seen the images of suffering and the aftermath on the internet and TV. There horrible irony is that this is considered by many to be the poorest country in the western hemisphere. They had no direction to go but up. And now this. Already at the bottom economically and now they have been shoved through the floor. As I watched TV, listened to radio, listened to people in our community, talked with children, attended prayer vigils, and met with other clergy, I have been struck by the questions: Why? Why do such things happen? How can there be such evil? Where is God? What can I do? How will they ever recover?

Questions are so hard to answer in tragic times. But we ask que…