Praying for Barack

Top reasons why I am praying for our new President (in no order of importance):
1. My mother is doing so and I will imitate her good example.
2. As President, he is a role-model, a father figure, and an influence upon so many in dimensions beyond policy and administration.
3. We moral conservatives, oftentimes arrogant and condemnatory, need the exercise in humility and love.
4. We Republicans have made a lot of messes and this is partial reparation.
5. He comes across as a searcher: open and hungry for the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
6. He is a decent, dear, lovable person.
7. He is tragically misguided and deceived on the issue of innocent life and may cause a great deal of harm.
8. He is tragically misguided and deceived on issues of sexuality, marriage and family and may cause a great deal of harm.
9. Expectations for him are too high; he is just one of us, another not-God!
10. He seems adrift, without a spiritual home or church and in need of such.
11. He is facing very grave problems and needs divine guidance.
12. He is our leader and scripture directs us to pray for governmental authorities.
13. He was abandoned by his own father and betrayed by his spiritual father and, like all of us, is in need of heavenly fathering.
14. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
15. He is my ideological enemy and we are instructed to pray for our enemies.
16. He is a baptized Christian and so is my brother in Christ.
17. He is, like me, a sinner in need of God’s mercy.
18. Sunday mornings he plays ball instead of going to Church because he doesn’t have a Church.
19. He is, arguably, the most powerful man in the world; but will be severely restricted in what he can do.
20. He has a beautiful family.
21. He has been indoctrinated into a worldview that is overly secular, liberationist, materialist, cosmopolitan and relativist.
22. He really wants to bring peace and justice to a world in need of them.
23. He seems to be surrounded by intelligent, competent, decent people; but are any deeply holy and apt to draw him closer to God?
24. The devil wants to use him to bring many souls to hell…and bring him to hell as well; but I don’t think that he knows this and no one close to him is likely to tell him.
25. As I’ve said before, I like him.