As a mother, pediatrician, and citizen, I have had a heavy heart for the parents of the children of Sandy Hook. We all have grieved with them since the brutal attacks of the innocent little children who were killed a few weeks ago.

Now that a bit of time has passed, some of us who have a faith in God are pressed to ask some painful questions, such as, where was he? This is one of the toughest questions a believer can grapple with because there seems to be no answer which lets him off the hook. But we must ask it anyway.

Anyone who has suffered pain has asked this question, but in a situation as horrific as this, we who believe demand more from God. There really are only two answers to this question.

First, we can assume that God wasn’t there.We reason that he was busy, perhaps, attending to the masses starving in Africa or enduring oppression by a brutal regime. In other words, we give God a pass. The difficulty with this theory is that it posits God as an uncaring, aloof being who is neither omnipresent nor caring. These don’t flesh with the…