Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Relationships, humans, we're tough to deal with, right? I think one of the toughest is family relationships. We've dealt with friendships and

relationships multiple times on the show, but I want to dive into dealing with relationships

inside our family that are sometimes tough. I'm sort of thinking about extended family here.

In-laws, siblings, people we're connected to by blood, but not necessarily live in our home.

But we sometimes have a difficult

time dealing with because of differences in all sorts of things. Can God really help us in this?

And if so, how and what part do we play? All of that in just a minute.

All right. So I know I'm talking to friends out there who have some siblings you are at odds with,

some in-laws you have a difficult time handling, maybe even some kids or moms and dads.

We have a wide variety of listeners on the show, literally teens to friends in their late 70s. And so while the players might look different and

circumstances as well, it is a widely universal issue for all of us to have family members

we don't agree with, get along with, or honestly even like all that much. Yeah, I just said that.

Most of you know we are in the midst of raising three kids, one in college and two in high school,

and while our kids are respectful and share many of our beliefs, we have young people in our

home that we don't agree with about everything. Our entire house is not 100% on the same page

politically. We don't all like the same kind of music. We see things

from different lenses, and sometimes that results in a debate to some degree. My belief is that

as parents, the goal is not to raise robots. So many reasons that is a no and not effective in the

long run, and we can talk about that later. But the goal is to

bring up kids with a strong enough core and have a family with a strong enough core that we can

have differences and stay strong as a unit still. Extended family is a bit trickier, I think, and all of

us have people in this category that we are either related to by blood or

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