Divine Isis, Mistress of the House of Life ( Read more... )

If you haven't decided what to do with your charitable giving dollars lately, please consider helping the flooded main branch of Louisville's library. Or, if cuddly is more your style, think about helping out Louisville Metro Animal Services, whose facility was also flooded.

Odin, Wanderer, You have paid dearly ( Read more... )

Thank you, veterans.

greatpoets has a lot of appropriate poems for today (one of which I even posted). Poems are one of our greatest forms of cultural memory, and we cannot forget the sacrifices that have been made on the world's battlefields, regardless of whether we agree with the causes of the battle ( Read more... )

This has been a very intense forty days for me. I know much more about my spiritual path than I did when I began. I knew things intellectually, of course, but now I know them on a different sort of level altogether. While the forty days are indeed up, I am still writing prayers, and I do plan to continue posting them on occasion -- perhaps ( Read more... )

Today you get a two-fer -- one purely Buddhist prayer, and one prayer to Kuan Yin, the Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, to whom I also pray, to nudge us back toward paganism for tomorrow's finale ( Read more... )

The Hoshbam, the Zoroastrians' prayer at dawn, is quite long, but this small, simplified excerpt spoke to me, especially the first line ( Read more... )

This Sikh prayer, written by the faith's founder, explains perfectly, and so beautifully, why I write -- why any person of faith writes -- prayers ( Read more... )

So I looked into the other prayers that were offered at the Day of Prayer for World Peace -- this site gives all of them, but the last two lines of the Jain one really touched my heart today, so it's the one I highlight here ( Read more... )

This prayer was offered at this interfaith prayer conference in 2002Although the people living across the ocean surrounding us, I believe, are all our brothers and sisters-why are there constant troubles in this world ( Read more... )