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Dec 2025, Vol. 22, No. 6
Finding Joy at Last
Once again, life had dealt Tula a cruel blow—her husband of more than 30 years was gone. Maybe this new grief stirred in Tula’s mind the same questions that had begun nagging her decades earlier: Why did she have a life of suffering, pain and sorrow? Was that all there was? Now she had an opportunity to find answers, but was she ready?
Child Marriage and Consistent Challenges
Tula had married when she was only 14. She grew up in a remote, wooded, agrarian village, part of a community with its own language and culture. Marrying at such a young age might have been acceptable there, but it caused Tula hardship. Only a girl, she labored alongside her husband and in-laws, harvesti ...
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“Jesus, truly, He’s the only source of joy—true joy—that we can ever experience in this world,” says GFA sponsor Rache ...
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Hebrews 1 tells us that God spoke to humanity at different times, in different ways, but finally, now He h ...