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Please God!

A black and white cartoon my mother cut out of a magazine twenty-some years ago is still etched in my memory. A seemingly apprehensive young woman was about to step onto the scale. The caption read, “Please God, please! Let me weigh 110 and then everything in my life will be perfect. ” I can still hear my mother giggling.

While there is no working scale in my home, and I haven’t frequented church since high school, the cartoon stays with me. Throughout my life, I too have found myself pleading, “Please God, just let this happen ...