Scrolling other people’s lives at midnight is a strange way to look for peace. Try talking to the One who made you.

Looking for comfort inside other people’s edited lives is a strange errand, and midnight is when most of us run it. What you are actually after at that hour is reassurance that you are all right, and a feed is built to supply the opposite by design. You scroll for calm and get a ranking.

The next time you reach for your phone late, name what you want before the screen comes on. Then try the nearer version: a few words of prayer if that is yours, a message to one friend, or the light off.