thinking they need to take on the responsibility. Also abused people may doubt whether there is a God at all, particularly if they have prayed for the abuse to stop, and nothing seemed to change. They may very well ask, ‘Where was God in all of this? Didn’t he care?’ Flora asked this very question: I once had a very moving experience when I cried out to God, ‘Where were you when this happened to me?’ and then had a vision of Jesus hanging on the cross, right beside me in the garage where the assault