Why did Rick go home in the Spring of 1994, and what did he write about the whole experience?

Rick went home in the Spring of 1994 because a tornado ripped through a church in his hometown killing twenty people including children. The townspeople were devastated and wondered where God could have been when all of this happened. Rick wrote a wonderful story that touched the people of the town. It ran on the front page of the New York Times, and it also ran in the Alabama papers. Rick noted that the church and the people's faith was rebuilt.