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I came across He puts the lonely in families by Neil E. Das in Catapult Magazine. Below's the concluding paragraph. Thinking about it as I prepare to visit PSU-Hershey Christian Medical Society.

I will not pretend that that afternoon was not difficult at times, both because of missing Anil, but also because of a muted struggle (which arose more strongly upon reflection later) to suppress a resentment of sorts that his own family did not take care of him as well as they might.  I longed for their connection to him not to ease our own burden, but because they missed out on him and he them. And, yet, as people filed up one at a time to say a word about Anil, it fleshed out what it means when David says in Psalm 68 that God puts the lonely in families. I cannot see how else that happens except in such mundane, difficult, rewarding ways when, as single or married folk, we crack open our lives and homes and be family to one another.