While holidays tend to highlight the pain of the lonely and broken, the gospel gives comfort. Psalm 68 reminds us the God is “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families. . . . “ (Psalm 86:5-6). James 1 explains, “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this; to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world” (James 1:27). In short, the church is meant to be a family in a world when so many don’t have one.