Comfort Found in Devotional Reading

I thought illness would make me feel cut off from You. Alone in my bed. Unable to go to my physical sacred space and give offerings. Unable to say prayers the way I do in that space.

Instead, I am delightfully surprised to find comfort in spending some of this time reading about You. Learning how others who worship You have similar practices. Learning how others who worship You have very different practices! Reading more of what we in my current time have learned from people of past times about You.

And I still pray. When my beliefs and practices were different - before I felt that Calling - prayer was nothing more than an obligation. With You, prayer is something I look forward to. Something I miss when my regular prayer practices are interrupted or delayed. Prayer is, in and of itself, a blessing. It is time spent in Your presence.