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

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 Thanks for this poem, Toni,such a beautiful message!Love, Lee
    On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 07:17:50 PM PDT, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:   

 
Prayer

Tonijean Bernbaum




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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