<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Cupped Hands<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Find a teacher. Preferably one that lives close by. Very close. Like inside. Build a container. You don't have to cut down a tree and then let the wood season nor purchase a lathe and then sign up for a wood turning class at the local community center. All you have to do is cup your hands. They become their own container.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Now whisper</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">a prayer. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Those cupped hands hold all the prayers you have yet to pray. If you do not know how to pray</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Simply say to yourself:</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">thank you</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">A thousand or eight thousand times. If you wonder who you're praying to,</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">don't worry</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">everyone wonders this most of the time,</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">the rabbis, </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">the monks in the caves, </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">the devout catholic.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Please please please</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Thank you thank you thank you </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Or the other way around it doesn't matter which comes first. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Teacher</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Container</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Prayer or</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Gratitude. <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""> <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Kristy Hellum</div></div></body></html>