Standing up for the right always matters.
The best, I suspect, we can do is stand up for it, encourage those whose lives we come in contact to do the same, and leave the rest in God's hands.
I wanted us to win, but I most ferverently prayed, "not my will, but Yours."
If we couldn't hold the house, then God has his reasons - perhaps to teach the US a lesson, or to allow some other deed to take place, or even to set up a conflict for the '08 election cycle. I don't see with God's eyes. What I have to do is keep stepping out in faith and trying to do the right thing. to be salt and light and leaven even when the way is uncomfortable or hard.
I am sure your example plants seeds. God will send the water, and if the soil is right, they will sprout.
I have read and been blessed by the prayers here and know the same Spirit which is in us all, for of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to him be the glory, forever, amen....Rom 11:36
then I had a strange thought....I'd like to read a prayer thread at DU....... or where would their prayer threads be? I want to read them too.....