Bad things — things so awful you can’t get your mind around them — happen to people every day. They may happen to you or me personally. They may happen in such a way that they get covered in the media, with every tragic aspect illuminated for the public to see. More often than anything else, of-course, they happen out of the spotlight, to countless people whose cries are never answered or recorded on earth. You or I may possibly find our own little slice of comfort and safety and contentment, whether for a fleeting time or even for a full lifetime, but that in no way negates the reality of the misery, evil and death that stalks this world both day and night. Last week a man entered a one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, possessed by an inexplicable rage, and shot ten young girls who had done nothing at all to deserve their brutal fate, or to deserve anything — we must assume — other than peaceful childhoods and hopeful futures. The parents of the girls who died have been shattered to a depth we’ll never know — if we’re lucky.

Just knowing that this indescribable horror occurred can’t help but cause observers to search their souls.

An atheist might well ask: How can anyone believe in a God who would allow such an awful, unjustifiable thing to take place — this massacre of helpless and innocent girls in the name of a meaningless rage?

A believer might well ask: How can anyone accept life in a world where such things occur without believing in a God who will correct all injustices, make all things right, and “wipe away the tears from all faces”?

They’re good questions. It’s always good to ask good questions of oneself and demand good answers, whatever those may be. Dylan’s always liked putting good questions into songs. Click here for a clip of a particularly transcendent version of Blowin’ In The Wind, from Japan on March 9th, 2001.

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