I don't have to give money. I prayed.

Sounds really smug and selfish when you put it that way, doesn't it?

A CNN poll shows that most Americans prayed for the tsunami victims, but most didn't pry open their wallets. Hey, no matter what your opinion of the power of prayer is, it doesn't get purified water and antibiotics where they need to go.

(CNN) -- Almost three-quarters of Americans surveyed in a poll released Thursday have prayed for victims of the southern Asia tsunamis, but when it comes to cash donations, only 45 percent have pulled out their wallets.

The CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll of 1,005 adults found that another 6 percent of those surveyed had thought about saying a prayer but hadn't done it, and 19 percent had not thought much about doing it.

The last paragraph kind of gets me, about the six percent thinking about saying a prayer but not actually doing it.

Now consider this account from Australia.

For now, though, there are only two sights I want to share, both tsunami-related. The first: the generosity of the Australian people. Telethons, volunteers, private contributions... really impressive. This was typical: in Hobart, Red Cross volunteers at the annual Taste of Tasmania festival made bins available to collect donations... and very shortly had to go get more bins, because there simply were too many donations to hold.