there is a new fragmented inner dimension to identity. No longer is God an accepted dimension of who we are. The world has been almost totally secularized. Guilt and anxiety are characteristic. If we could pin down how we feel, it would be not so much that God has left us alone but that we have wandered off and left God, and we feel both lonely and guilty. We have gotten far from home. There is a vast distance between us and our experience of God’s presence.
