Why do bad things happen to good people? Why doesn't somebody come to help us? How could this happen in the U.S.A.? Where is God when it hurts?

It's been another unbelievable week of questions in the light of human tragedy. While our inquiring minds want concrete answers, we gather for worship knowing full well that we must live the questions. So on our way to Holy Communion, let me ask two questions that seem to be on everybody's mind.

I. WHY DO PEOPLE SUFFER?

I picked the Scripture for today long before there was a storm named Katrina. As Jesus and the disciples went along, they encountered a man who had been blind from birth. The inquisitive disciples want to know. Who's to blame for this? Did this man sin or was it the sin of his parents that caused him to be born blind? Exactly …