You pray for the window, but consider whether God Himself has not allowed this small trouble to draw you closer to Him. When the disciples saw no food in the wilderness, they thought only of the impossibility, not of the One who could provide. He let them feel the lack so they would learn to entreat Him. So this gap letting in the cold may be His mercy, teaching you to depend on Him in little things as in great.
Do not despise the smallness of the request. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you. What is a window but a small member of the house? Yet when it fails, the whole body of the dwelling suffers. Your discomfort is real, and it is no shame to bring it before the Lord who feeds the sparrows.
But while you pray, do not sit idle and merely wait. If you see a friend in need of help, you do not stand by saying, “I have no skill.” You act. You speak. You hold him back from harm. Here your own house cries out, and you must also act. Do you not know a neighbor who can lift a hand? A laborer near you who might come? Go and ask. This is not a work requiring great talent. To send a message, to knock on a door, to ask for aid, this is a talent you possess. Use it, for the Lord loves when we do what we can for our own good and the good of others.
Do not let the cold wind of anxiety enter your heart more than the air from Canada enters your room. The rich man longed for a drop of water and could not have it because his heart was set on other things. I do not say you are rich, but do not be a lover of ease more than a lover of diligence. The widow indeed is she who trusts in God and continues instant in prayer, yet she also rises to tend what needs tending. You have no husband, perhaps no child, to help? Then God stands in their place, but He often works through the hands of a willing neighbor. Seek that neighbor out.
This is a small evil at the door, and you are right to want it mended before worse comes. But take heed that no one deceive you into thinking God is slow to care for such things. He who taught us to say, “Our Friend sleeps,” and yet went to wake him, knows your need before you ask. Pray, yes. But let your prayer be like a letter written not in ink but in the Spirit, shown by your own feet carrying you to find the help that God has already placed nearby. Then the window will be shut, the cold kept out, and your faith made warmer than before.