Even if God’s answer to our prayer was yes, we can no more return to life as it was as Job could return to the days before the LORD made his wager with the Satan, or as Abraham could turn back the sundial before the LORD devised his test, or as Naomi could return to her life before she buried her husband and two sons—or as if I can go back before the very first symptom appeared, or you can go back to when (you can fill in the blank). For better or worse, we are not the same person after our time