God dead in Garissa

"Our present state is a factor of our past actions,
Our present reality is a factor of our perception of the future"

Lelli Mandela

To effectively answer the question where was God during the death of the students in Garissa, one must not ask finite questions but must demand to understand infinite reality.
A reality simply put is a transcendence of perceptions based on facts to a perception based on unchanged truth. To accept that there is a truth that may defy present facts in time and may offer higher insight into what is real.

There has been an argument that the massacre happened either because God is not real or is altogether present but unable to save. I could take this time to argue out whether God is real but that is not why I have sacrificed my words today.
God was present and watching as it happened. Probably even shed a few tears for He has emotions too.  If I were Him, I would have cried over the unnecessary manner in which the young people had to die. Maybe mourn for the killers for they have not yet known my love and will spend eternity separated from it.

Time is a factor of eternity. Death just a transition into another state. Death is not such a big deal  as men see it. It is a big deal if it was final, if there was no eternal hope. If there was no heaven or hell. I think I may do well at this point to declare that I have a working soul so yes, it is a big deal as a man.

The Bible says do not mourn as those who have no hope. Hope speaks not of the present but of the future. That is what the gospel promises, an eternal hope. Something that helps us live our present lives rather than exist for like 80 years.

God may have altogether failed to save our comrades because of hope, not because he is incapable of interfering in human affairs. If he were to interfere in every death and stop all unreasonable manner of descending to the grave, then we would have nothing to look forward to after death. Maybe death was the most selfless way of giving man a glimpse into eternity.