Aren't you frightened?" <br />Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. <br />She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." <br />"Then why don't you act like it?"<br />"I do. I just do it in private."<br />"Because you don't trust me?"<br />"No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too.