[Thespiritexpress] Prayer.....poem read at Sutra's today

[blake more]

wow!!!! I love this Toni! So deep and loving and alive. Can you record it for me? I would love to add this to the pledge drive show I’m doing with Dan Sunday May 3…again, I am going to read it again and again!

thank you for sharing — I am in Palm Springs/Desert Hot Springs for the week, so I missed last weekends memorial, and have been loving all the shares here.  

many blessings
blake

> On Apr 21, 2026, at 7:17 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Prayer
> Tonijean Bernbaum
> 
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> It really doesn’t matter
> Where I begin 
> or how it begins.
> It could be a tulip in its last day of bloom
> or a baby pine sprinkled with snow
> or a walnut in its shell 
> or a stone from the river bed at a sacred site.
> 
> It could be a chipmunk
> or the scurrying of a chipmunk
> on the pile of fresh cut oak
> fragrant in the peripheral 
> of dawn’s first light.
> Could be the deer
> eating the apple
> or the deer dung
> or the emerald patch of moss
> where the dung was dropped.
> 
> I find it quite impossible 
> to begin a prayer.
> It’s already going on 
> All the time
> everywhere.
> 
> And all the while
>  I AM the prayer
> speaking,
> I am the miracle of life
> expressing itself through me.
> 
> I am this mystery, 
> out of which I have sprung
> this prayer of listening
> to the voice of the All speaking
> the answer to every prayer -
> Knowing myself as That
> expressing That I am, 
> the answer to every prayer. 
> 
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