I am experiencing troubled family relationships, miscommunication at work and elsewhere, and just general difficulties — one of the hardest periods of my life (and there have been some really hard ones.) I always felt God close to me before but right now, not often. I don’t know why. Please pray for God’s presence to come back into my life and to sustain me through these difficult times; to help me find healing words and actions to repair troubled relationships; and perhaps to find a real, true friend, or rediscover an old one, who can listen sometimes, and remind me that I’m loved. Please also pray that if I need to take other steps to care for myself that I am led to those steps forthwith. Â