BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, making rounds with a hospital chaplain who comforts sick children. Janie Brooks works at Children's National Medical Center and the HSC Pediatric Center, both in Washington, DC. She says she can't answer such questions as, why me? But she can be a friend. We asked her about the toughest part of her job.

Reverend JANIE BROOKS (Chaplain, Children's National Medical Center and HSC Pediatric Center, Washington, D.C.): Seeing kids that are sick and suffering -- it's unfair, and it raises a lot of questions for us as people of faith that really don't have answers about why these things happen, honest questions and tough ones.

I just have to tell them the truth -- that I don't know the answer to their question, but that it's a fair question, and it's one that deserves to be asked. But sometimes we just don't understand why things happen, why people have to get sick and suffer.

I think of myself as a spiritual friend, a companion for people whose lives have been interrupted by illness or accident who suddenly find themselves in a hospital in an unfamiliar setting; people whose spirits need attention, perhaps even more so than ever at a time when they are hurting and scared.

Children, I believe, are even more spiritual than adults are. They're naturally drawn to the spiritual realm. But they don't often express their spirituality and what we might think of as theological or religious language and so most of the time that I spend with children, particularly the younger ones, I'm just hanging out.

Children have permission from their parents to come to the service, and we just have a great time. It's probably not like any church service that you've ever been to before. We hold it in the playroom here at HSC. It's open to everybody. Parents are welcome to come, staff members are invited, but most of the time it's just me and the kids.

We're lucky enough to have a group of ladies from the First Baptist Church of Marshal Heights who come here.