I might get criticized for even mentioning this here but I'm not that religious of a person. I admit there is some power in prayer, but I don't think prayer alone is going to do much for this country. What has to happen is people need to take an active part in the decisions that are being made. I recently went to a local city council meeting. Now mind you, this city I live in has 73,000 people in it. Guess how many showed up at the council meeting? 4. That's the number four. A quick run with my calculator and that comes out to .000005479 percent of the population of my city cared enough to attend a meeting and voice their opinions to the people WHO CAN ACTUALLY MAKE THE CHANGE. Now maybe 4 people
can make a difference, but change will come a lot quicker if 40,000 people came to that meeting. Unfortuntely, most people just don't care as much as they say they do.
I see on Facebook and other forums all the time about people complaining about so many things. It's way easier to complain to people who can't do anything about it than it is to get involved with those who can it seems. I'm not scolding anyone here and in fact, I'm guilty of it too at times. But this stuff really gets my fire burning. My favorite saying is "It's better to light a candle than rage against the darkness." And it's so true. People rage all the time because that's the easy way. It's also quite ineffective.
Like Dave Matthew says in one of his songs, "We got to do much more than believe if we really want to change things."
Anyway, just my two cents on the matter. It's great to raise awareness and prayer isn't going to hurt, but it also doesn't hurt to stand up in front of a forum of your peers and tell them they suck at their job and demand they do it better.
