CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) -   Celeste, the mother, has
volunteered for my congregation. She's basically an aunt to a
senior member of our staff. So I cried for the two-sidedness: A
member of our community lost her legs below the knees, and
nearly lost her daughter. And, in one day, nearly 4,000 people
donated more than $250,000 to support them. They seemed to be
saying, through their gifts, "Please do this for me too if
anything should ever happen to me or my family."  As a chaplain,
I'm struggling to make sense of this tragedy just like any other
member of the clergy. And like faith communities across the
country, the thousands of people I work with are doing what
needs to be done when tragedy strikes close to home. We're
offering one another comfort. We're calling around to the point
of exhaustion, trying to figure out who needs help and how we
can provide it.  The only difference is, we are a community of
atheists --- a congregation of Humanists.  You've probably read
the statistics: With 18% of the n