It was 2021, and my life felt like a tangled thread, constantly snagging and pulling. I was away from my family, wrestling with the loneliness and the challenges of single parenthood. A deep unhappiness had settled in my bones. I felt lost, desperately searching for something to anchor myself to. Then, one day, I stumbled upon John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have Eternal life." The words struck me like a chord, vibrating deep within. In that moment, the pain I had been carrying didn't vanish, but it felt...different. It was as if a tiny seed of hope had been planted in the darkness, a promise that even in the midst of my struggles, there was a path to a deeper, more enduring joy.