‘God is everywhere, but who is God?’

“The place beyond the clouds is heaven,” my mom said, pointing towards the gates of paradise in the sky, “and God lives there—”

“Then why do we pray inside the buildings rather than outside it?” I interrupted out of curiosity.

“Because, son, God wants us to pray in secret, so that he could come down one day to his most beloved children and meet them without telling anyone else–the one who doesn’t pray…”

I had always believed God would come from the clouds, and...