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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I ask the ten-year-old in my Sunday school class.

“A teacher.”

There’s a short pause after my slightly distracted, “Oh, that’s nice.”

Then, she says, “But really, I just want God to come back.”

This gets my attention. I know she’s talking about Jesus. “How come?” 

“So I can see my mom again,” came the predictable reply. Her mom recently passed away.

She continues, “Although, we can’t really know what...