The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:11

Sometimes, God is the only one who knows how to put things together for us. It appears that it takes him in order for us to walk healthy God-prosperous lives. One area that I believe God would really like for us to prosper in is our relationships with others. In order to do this, we need to be wise, and from time to time we may need divine help for our friends and family in order to live the close lives we are supposed to live.

There was a time in my family where there was a misunderstanding that happened with one of my siblings. There was a rift in the family and one of the family members decided the answer was not to talk to certain members of the family and to withdraw. There was something that needed to be talked about that was actually quit small but no one was talking.

There was a long period of silence, too long for any family to go through. One day I was praying to God about this situation and I had the impression that my sibling was in town. I thought about the fact that they loved sugar cookies and that I should bring them some.

I found out that same day that they really were in town and just the night before I had made some pumpkin sugar cookies by chance. I went home, got them and placed them on the doorstep of where they were staying with a note saying that I missed them, would love to talk to them, and that I apologize if anything happened in our family to hurt them. This led us to have a four hour conversation a few days later and the relationship was off to being in a better place and I was able to help restore the relationships in our family through that discussion.

What if I would not have acted on those thoughts the Lord put into my mind as I was praying? What if I would not have checked to see if my sibling was in town? What if I would have not prayed about it at all?

I needed that little nugget to help me work out the situation.

God is always guiding and leading us, we just have to listen to the little things that sometimes end up being very big.

Instead of trying to hear a big booming powerful voice or sign, think on what you believe God would want you to do in your relationships and start doing it. Do you think God wants you to be more loving, kind, or forgiving? Do you think you nag too much?

Ask God to reveal what you can do to make your relationships better and to salvage those that need a little more TLC than the others.