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

[Toni Bernbaum]

Oh Blake….thank you thank you thank you……and of courss, I’d love to record it for you. We are going out of town the next few days……I  will record it for you when we get back……no later than next week.
And yes, you were so obviuosly missed at the Memorial…..like WHERE’S BLAKE?  It was hugely well attended though the sound system was a little sucky…….anyway, for us older eared folk……..still, it 
was a beautiful affair…….Michael Riedell told me he had a blast in Pt. Arena…….such a cool diggin thang you do there for we poets!
Have a blast at the Hot Springs……hope to see you soon……♥️
> On Apr 21, 2026, at 7:51 PM, blake more via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> 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!
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> 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.  
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> many blessings
> blake
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>> 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
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>> Where I begin 
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>> or how it begins.
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>> It could be a tulip in its last day of bloom
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>> or a baby pine sprinkled with snow
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>> or a walnut in its shell 
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>> or a stone from the river bed at a sacred site.
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>> It could be a chipmunk
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>> or the scurrying of a chipmunk
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>> on the pile of fresh cut oak
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>> fragrant in the peripheral 
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>> of dawn’s first light.
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>> Could be the deer
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>> eating the apple
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>> or the deer dung
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>> or the emerald patch of moss
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>> where the dung was dropped.
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>> I find it quite impossible 
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>> to begin a prayer.
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>> It’s already going on 
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>> All the time
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>> everywhere.
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>> And all the while
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>>  I AM the prayer
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>> speaking,
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>> I am the miracle of life
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>> expressing itself through me.
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>> I am this mystery, 
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>> out of which I have sprung
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>> this prayer of listening
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>> to the voice of the All speaking
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>> the answer to every prayer -
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>> Knowing myself as That
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>> expressing That I am, 
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>> the answer to every prayer. 
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