Did anyone else find themselves praying night and day for DEMs to hold onto our Democracy?

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43. If you know God's character and trust it, then it becomes easier

to pray things that align with God's will, for justice, mercy, alleviation of sickness, freedom from addiction and restoration of relationships, poverty, healing, and so forth. Democracy delivers more of those things than autocracy does. As imperfect as it is, justice and mercy are far more likely in a democracy than a dictatorship.

It seems to me that praying for the things we saw Jesus caring about is just doing as Jesus would do. Prayer is powerful. Even

"Thy will be done," is a good one to get started on. I like the prayer circle in my adult Sunday small group, because I have a limited memory, but by the time we go around the circle collective prayers have meant I've prayed for many more that I'd remembered on my own and people and situations I really want to pray for. We also do a weekly prayer journal. Helps us keep needs in mind throughout the week.

I don't think the words matter, but any time we yearn over someone hurting or a broken situation, we are praying wordlessly, but it's heart-felt. I suspect you pray more often than you think you do when that type of prayer is included.