My Prayer

 

MY PRAYER

By Teak Kilmer

 circa 1997

 

 

Quickly from the burden I would be

Then it dawns from myself I flee

And from Spirit and joy that by the burden beckon me,

And now I do the work in harmony

As now through clearer Glass I see

And notice evermore the work is really done by thee.

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