It was almost Mother's Day, and Mavis still hadn't found a card. She had a hard time finding something appropriate because she and her mother had never had a close relationship.

Mavis shared her dilemma with a friend at work. Her friend told her that it was only natural to have mixed feelings about people that we're close to. We have such high expectations of our mothers that they're bound to let us down sometimes. Mavis merely snorted at that. Her mother let her down all the time. Then Jenna saw that Mavis needed some wiser counsel. "Whenever I'm having a problem," she said, "I ask God for help." And so that's what Mavis did. She prayed to God to show her the card she needed.

There were only about thirty Mother's Day cards left when she returned to the store. She picked up a card with g…