Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.”
Twenty to midnight is a strange hour to be writing "Hope you're well" to someone who is almost certainly asleep. Still, the laptop can stay open on the sofa, and one more reply can quietly turn into four. If you have known evenings like that, you may also know the thought underneath them: if I stop now, everything unfinished will come apart.