Perhaps, like the psalmist, you lie awake, acutely aware of the absence of your loved one. You listen for familiar sounds but, instead, there is silence. You feel like a small bird on a housetop, lonely yet still with a view to the world. Your loneliness stands in sharp contrast to life going on all around you. Yet in your loneliness there is great comfort in the teaching of Christ: “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (Matthew 6:26 NRSV)