Children sometimes ask cute questions, but often they are also incisive. In Children's Letters to God, a child inquires, "Dear God, Where does everybody come from? I hope you explain it better than my father. Ward." Another child queries, "Dear God, Did you mean for a giraffe to look like that or was it an accident? Norma." Then, there are those persons who, in the presence of larger questions, can think only of the obvious and mundane.

Yellowstone Park Rangers report that, at the place where Old Faithful geyser, every hour or so, lifts its heavenly plume of water to the sky, the most frequently asked question is "Where is the bathroom?" There are some really hard questions which deal with our faith and our spiritual lives. This narrative of Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath deals with so…