Praying Doesn't Make Things Happen (It Just Reminds You That they're Gonna Anyway)

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The 'reboot' of "One Day at a Time" ... it's good and funny and everything, but it's made me cry a couple times. And one of those times was when single-mom Penny confronts her old-school Cuban mother about 'going to church every Sunday.' Penny went as far as saying that she didn't even know if God exists, and that triggered mama Lydia: "I KNOW God exists; because I prayed for you everyday when you were stationed in Afghanistan, and he protected you!" I just lost it there, and so did Penny and Lydia, and they hugged in sympathy/celebration that 'whatever Authority there is' (call it Our Father's will, call it Luck) HAD 'protected' Penny that she could return and "captain" the family through going-on 4 seasons of modern life's clash against old traditions. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5339440/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt