Moon: Full at 10:39PM; Virgo
What Made Me Smile: Tom Felton's Twitter updates today.
Song In My Head: The Fray - You Found Me
A Few Points I want to hit today - hopefully in the eight minutes before House comes on.
But first a random thought: I laughed this afternoon when I looked at the array of items on my bed while I was doing homework. My math book was open to the homework page, my history book open in my lap, my Witch's datebook and a Wicca reference book were both open to wherever I had left off, and my phone was lit up with text messages. Funny how worlds collide when you're one with your beliefs.
My daily devotions have become a huge part of my life. For a long time, I never thought about devotions, or even realized what they were. But after reading several books that mentioned the importance of this kind of practice, I turned devotions into a daily part of my life. In the morning, I get up, go to my altar, light a candle or two and some incense, ground and center and say a few words of greeting to the Lord and Lady. Sometimes they're my own words pre-planned words, or someone else's, or completely spontaneous, depending on my mood. I sit for a moment, breathe, meditate and ground and center once more before getting up to start my day.
Similarly, right before I hop into bed, I have the same pattern, just changing the words as they apply. I also will say mini-prayers throughout the day.
I can confidently say that my days have been better since I started doing devotions and more frequent meditations. I can handle problems better throughout the day and I am in a calmer state for most of the time. This will connect with my next story.
Today in class, we were supposed to watch a movie. Then, a certain someone who I dislike asked if we were having a make-up quiz. So my teacher, of course, agreed and suddenly we have a quiz in front of us. I can't find my note's (we're allowed to use them) because I wasn't expecting to have a quiz today. So I ended up getting a very bad grade on the quiz, because of guessing on most of the questions. I was visibly upset, but my teacher had no sympathy (but I understand why). I was mostly angry, because it didn't seem fair. And in a sudden burst of helplessness I whispered in my head "Lady, help me to be strong." And almost immediately I felt the Lady's glow upon me, a comforting warmth that told me it was okay to be upset, but to learn from what happened and just do better next time. And I felt better. I resolved to never let it happen again. I love that feeling.
Blessings,
Ellen
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I think it's fantastic you're at one with your beliefs, I have done bouts of nothing but pouring over Pagan and Wiccan books, to the exclusion of all things mundane, and then when the inevitable happened and I got overkill, I didn't look at another pagan/wiccan thing for a while. Now I'm trying to keep a happy balance, you're know you're doing the right thing when it fits in seamlessly in your life without taking it over.
ReplyDeleteI love that you're doing an evening devotion as well as morning, I love the idea of a morning ritual, but hadn't thought of ending the day in the same way, I like that very much! Thanks for the great idea!