Thoughts and Prayers

I know there was a round of shaming, from the secular left, during the California slaughter, for those who sent out "thoughts and prayers". Peggy Noonan today has a column in which she makes the point that actually praying is an efffortful, at least as she does it. And it occurred to me that a lot of traditional Christian prayer used to also go by the name "meditation". I bet the secular left would not engage in meditation shaming, just because contemporary American "meditators" are clustered in the left.

In the face of disaster, people hope

To find the power to cope.