If you’ve been praying for a sibling for years, you’re not failing. You’re standing guard.

Years of asking for the same person can start to feel like proof that nothing is working, because you are measuring by results instead of by presence. Keeping someone in your care that long is not a failed campaign. It is a watch you have refused to leave. People who get looked after usually have somebody quietly doing exactly that.

Keep the habit small enough to survive the week. One sentence about them, at the same moment each day, maybe on the walk to school. Then send them something ordinary, so the care also shows up where they can see it.