God has been out of the punishing business for a long time. If you want to see where God is in all of this, stand beside a firefighter who carried the living and the dead over his shoulder. Look into the eyes of the woman lined up to donate blood. See the thousands of volunteers who came to help. Those are some bad answers, it may take a long time for good answers to come.
Questions are always more important than answers.
Answers bring us to a conclusion. Questions lead us on. And right now, as a nation, we need to be led on. We need to be led on through this valley of the shadow of death. We need to be led on to hope.