“They have offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of Congress, but they have passed not a single new law to reduce gun violence — enough prayers, time for some action,” Biden said.
I am reminded of the old saw my mother used to tell her high school Sunday School class about how G-d answers prayer.
The story goes about a man whose house was caught in an enormous flood. He prayed continually for G-d to save him from the flood. Several attempts to save him and his response was always, ‘I’ve prayed to G-d and He will save me’.
Of course, the man dies in the flood and, on his encounter with St. Peter, the man rails against G-d demanding to know why He didn’t save the man from the flood.
St Peter responds: " He sent a rowboat, a motor boat and a helicopter. What more did you want Him to do?"
Prayers only go so far, is the moral of the story. At some point, one has to take action to achieve anything.