Mrs. D, you have the right words to live by. But please answer me this (or anybody out there):
How do I love the Democraps and the RINOs?
Like Tevye's rabbi said in "The Fiddler on the Roof": "A blessing for the Tsar? Why, of course.. 'My G-d bless the Tsar and keep him.... far away from us.'"
Seriously, you pray for their coming to a knowledge of the truth: for their remorse, repentance, and redemption.
This is how I would want to be prayed for: so I'm doing unto them what I would want them to do unto me.
Pray for them.
Jesus' answer? He told us to love our enemies (tough to do I know). God the Father sent His only Son Jesus Christ to earth to be mocked, spit on, tortured, beaten, nailed to a cross and die. Then He was put in a tomb that could not hold Him and rose three days later and now sits at the Right Hand of the Father. All this was done for dirty nasty sinners like us. And God simply tells us to love those who hate us.