Conversations with God

Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know, Lord, it’s a glorious bright sunny morning that dawned a few hours ago. We just heard about a ‘test’ so let’s see how the Sunshine Test works? It probably ‘works’ best after a bit of rain for then the whole scene from the window looks scrubbed and clean, it’s lovely out there as the evergreens trees almost sparkle; why, even the few clouds that are sailing above look fluffy and white and freshly washed.

The sun shines brightly through the windows, but – oops! Those windows just barely PASS the test and here we had just washed them and thought they were dirt...