Is Donald Trump the answer to our prayers? Well, he is not the answer, but thus far he has been part of the solution.
How do we know when God answers our prayers? I wish I knew. There are times when I have the feeling, but never the certainty.
The election of Donald Trump was so unexpected. A miracle? He is definitely not the man anyone expected to win, and he has defied everyone’s expectations.
What I do know is that we all need to pray for our leaders and help them to do the right thing.
“God fixes everything” is kind of a child-like phrase, but there is truth there. I think I become about six years old in faith sometimes, which is fine, which is a vast improvement over being a two year old. Two yr olds tend to just throw themselves on the floor kicking and screaming when their world falls apart.
Several years back I was working in healthcare and just became completely overwhelmed by this kind of unholy confluence between Obamacare, opioids, and addiction. I was watching us make people sicker. Kill them, even. People needed the Lord, they needed soul care, they needed love, and they were turning to Western medicine instead. So if your life has become unmanageable, we got a pill for that.
Opioids are kind of interesting, some people do quite well with them, they manage pain, they work as they are intended, but others become addicted quite…
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Citizen Tom 
Tom,
If Doug reads your post that Trump is the answer to our Nations prayers, he may go ballistic.
However, someone said, “the Lord works in mysterious ways,'” In my opinion, our Nation really, really, needed help. I believe it to be a miracle that we have a President actually fulfilling his campaign promises.
Also,
I replied the following on “biology’s” post.
“Ask and thou shalt receive.”
Getting someone to seriously ask for help from God may sometimes be harder to do than to break a bad habit, in my opinion.
You will know if He answered you when your spirit is strengthened enough to break the bad habit.
Regards and good will blogging.
@scatterwisdom
All I can say is that I think God has a sense of humor, and it is better to laugh with Him.
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