At the same time, to ask the deeper questions of "why" aren't inappropriate for this time for the very reason that those who are suffering are asking those questions....Certainly we need to meet basic physical needs. Yet, as most any chaplain or disaster response professional will tell you, the emotional and spiritual scars are as great as the physical needs. To begin to ask "why" questions allows those of us to help those who suffer in processing their sense of abandonment.

[via Only Wonder Understands]