As soon as the story began to unfold last Tuesday evening, the wheels in my head began to turn. For four days I have beheld the images of destruction plastered on every screen and front page. I have read both tragic statistics and individual accounts. And I have glimpsed into the desperate eyes of hopeless victims- hundreds of miles away from my own reality. Yet, only hundreds of miles away. And I have wrestled with one question.

                Why Haiti?

                Why did such unfathomable suffering and calamity have to fall on a people that were already doing all they could just to survive? They don’t deserve this! I protested. They had nothing. Why, God, would you allow the course of nature to take even that?