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

[Gunn]

Presence is powerful 
An attitude of gratitude 
Walk in the light 
A living receptor 
Lively pebble 

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> On Apr 24, 2026, at 3:05 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for this poem Toni
> 
> Yes, I am the prayer with you,
> I am the miracle of life for you
> as you are for me
> you express through me
> as I hear your voice
> always
> with joy in my heart
> what a blessing!
> 
>> On Apr 21, 2026, at 19:17, 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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