Confession: Are you there God? It's me, Melody.

To understand my relationship with God, you have to know how I got here. I was born in Tehran, Iran in 1982 during the Iranian (Islamic) Revolution where the secularized and modernized dynasty under Shah Pahlavi was toppled and replaced by an Islamic republic. The situation in Iran at that time was grim for everyone, but especially for Jews, which is wh…