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b'Disasters, both natural and unnatural, create aftershocks of a different sort in both survivors and witnesses. People are suddenly willing to think about their faith and its relationship to the reality all around them. In the aftermath, people wrestle with tough theological questions - sometimes for the first time in their lives. Many see a tremendous contradiction in the idea that God could coexist in a world with such egregious evil and suffering. The problem of such evil is not a mere intellectual exercise in philosophy. Among those who do not doubt His existence, the question that is always asked in times such as these is, "Where is God?" The author of Hebrews anticipates such questions and reactions from his readers. It is the author\'s pastoral affection for his readers that compels him to write the letter in the first place. He knows that his readers are almost surely thinking these thoughts as they underwent persecution. If the author of Hebrews is correct and Jesus is the supreme Being in the universe who now sits at the right hand of God, reigning with all authority and dominion, then why are bad things still happening?'