Sometimes events or circumstances can cause us to feel down. Sometimes to hopelessness.
Here is an example of how one group begins its day together. They work with each other under the most difficult circumstances people in any nation could confront.
Be sure to turn on the sound from this facebook video. (link)
The song is Prayer for Ukraine.
Their example reminds me of this observation:
I used to believe that prayer changes things; but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.
Mother Teresa