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The Gods Want Your Household Worship

The Theoi want your oikos, your home.

They do not care about your conference. They do not care about your organization. They do not care about your festival.

The Gods want your household worship.

They do not care about your blog. They do not care about your Facebook page.

The Theoi want you to get your house in order. They want you to make regular offerings and engage regularly in prayer.

The Gods do not care about Paganism or Polytheism. The work you do on behalf of the concept of Pagan or Polytheist identity doesn’t interest them.

The Gods want your home altar in regular use, and your household devotions maintained.

They do not care about your traffic, likes, shares, comments, vindication, or outrage.

The Gods want your home as a sanctuary in which they can be in relationship with you. Not a closet, not a shelf, not a corner, but your home.

They don’t care about environmentalism. They don’t care about your right to bear arms. They don’t care who you vote for or your race or your sexuality. They don’t care if you speak Greek or stand on the soil of Hellas.

The Gods want your household worship.

Prayer for Wisdom

Sing, O Goddess, sing through me!

Hestia, joy of my heart, help me to begin.
Let wisdom flow from my tongue,
language sweet and strong,
like warm oil feeds fragrant flames.

Let my thoughts and actions be inspired,
may my endeavor be nourishing
as meat to the hungry, and quenching
as sweet wine to the thirsty.

Glorious Goddess,
your blessings are my reality.
If my life has joy, it is thanks to you,
and your praises I will sing.

As with all things, my works
begin and end with you.
I pray your hearth of goodwill
be centered in all I do.