One February night, stranded in a small apartment near the edge of a midwestern city, I faced the longest hours of my life while my husband was away. My two-year-old son, restless and inconsolable, refused to sleep, setting off a chain of events that forced me to confront buried fears, a crumbling marriage, and the meaning of faith. That night, when everything felt most hopeless, a moment of grace arrived where I least expected it.