That's how you know when you have thought too much — when you become a dialogue between You'll probably lose and You're sure to lose. - Norman Maclean

Although divine bewilderment addresses its grief to the universe, it only cries out to it. It has to find its answer, if at all, in its own final act. It is not to be found among the answers God gave to Job in a whirlwind.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts — hopefully, even the arch to the sky.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.