Where Has God Gone?

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Inside the dim church, Jesse paced back and forth like a headless fly. Right now, she felt like an ant on a hot pan—completely lost and frantic with anxiety. She carefully recalled all the stupid things she had done that morning. First, she had told a man seeking her advice to "open his heart," thereby getting him killed. Second, she had impatiently shouted at her good friend Eugene, telling him to go to Hell and repent.