Cupped Hands - Kristy Hellum

[Larry Robinson]

Cupped Hands

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.
Now whisper
a prayer. 
Those cupped hands hold all the prayers you have yet to pray. If you do not know how to pray
Simply say to yourself:
thank you
A thousand or eight thousand  times. If you wonder who you're praying to,
don't worry
everyone wonders this most of the time,
the rabbis, 
the monks in the caves, 
the devout catholic.
Please please please
Thank you thank you thank you 
Or the other way around it doesn't matter which comes first. 
Teacher
Container
Prayer or
Gratitude. 
 
	- Kristy Hellum
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