Exhaustion and Ritual

School can bring on steady exhaustion all on its own. Now add a twice a day workout schedule, looming 5k race, general household duties and a group that needs to meet...and you have my point of exhaustion. Not that I complaining...okay well maybe I am a little. The thing is that this type of exhaustion I actually like. It means I am blessed with the pursuit of education, I am bettering myself and my health, and I have a life and friends. So I am okay with this exhaustion...and if anything the part from school will eventually be over (at least for a little while).

I realized I hadn't really posted anything spiritual lately. And isn't that just the way it goes? I am constantly mindful of my internal dialogue with the Gods and Goddesses, my prayers and conversations with them are ongoing. But sometimes there is just not enough time in the day for "practice." The thing is I think They understand that, They realize that I have school (They surely realize that that is usually what I am discussing with Them anyway!), They realize sometimes you just have to vacuum the floor, pick up the dishes, clean the litter boxes...

I believe it is the internal dialogue that is most important. The acknowledgment that They are a force in your life. That you can talk to them about anything, just like a best friend that will listen to you rant about some random thing, that is what They are. The practice part is important too...Ritual is part and long has been part of human life. Think about it...what did you do this morning? The same thing you did yesterday morning, or the morning before, or the morning before that? Exactly! We all have our little rituals, things we do the same way every time. Ever eat an Oreo? Or in the shower, do you shampoo, condition then wash, or wash then shampoo? Is there a well worn pattern in your day? There is your ritual...it may not be spiritual...but why can't it be?

I guess what I am getting at is find something that you can do in your everyday that is a ritual to whoever your higher power is. I can turn my vacuuming into a cleansing ritual for my home, remove the physical clutter along with the psychic clutter. Turn making my lunch into a prayer of gratitude that I have food to make my lunch. Instead of focusing on what I can't do (fit in a full circle, incense, candles and spells), I can focus on what I can do and what I can turn into a ritual.

So it doesn't matter that I am exhausted or that I "don't have time," I do have time I just have to change the way I think of time and how I use it. So go out there, find your ritual and make it spiritual.