<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><b>Prayer</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><i>Tonijean Bernbaum</i></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">It really doesn’t matter</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Where I begin </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">or how it begins.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">It could be a tulip in its last day of bloom</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">or a baby pine sprinkled with snow</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">or a walnut in its shell </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">or a stone from the river bed at a sacred site.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">It could be a chipmunk</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">or the scurrying of a chipmunk</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">on the pile of fresh cut oak</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">fragrant in the peripheral </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">of dawn’s first light.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Could be the deer</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">eating the apple</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">or the deer dung</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">or the emerald patch of moss</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">where the dung was dropped.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">I find it quite impossible </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">to <i>begin</i> a prayer.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">It’s already going on </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">All the time</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">everywhere.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">And all the while</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><i> I AM </i>the prayer</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">speaking,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">I am the miracle of life</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">expressing itself through me.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">I am this mystery, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">out of which I have sprung</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">this prayer of listening</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">to the voice of the All speaking</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">the answer to every prayer -</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Knowing myself as <i>That</i></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">expressing That I am, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Cambria; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">the answer to every prayer. </p>
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