Returning to the Prayer Beads

Glorious Mother Hekate, I asked for Your guidance when it comes to my recent thoughts about prayer beads, and I thank You for blessing me with guidance. I hope I have understood correctly, or at least started in the right direction. I think there's a lot here I still don't understand, or has not been revealed to me yet. I'm learning this is a much deeper thing than I previously recognized.

As is so often the case with photos of my devotional work, I feel compelled to turn photos of my new prayer beads to black and white. It's interesting to me that they look like light beads on a dark background, and then dark beads on a light background. Oh, and You know, Mighty Hekate, how the greyness holds all the colors when holding the actual beads!

They feel so delicate in my hands. The material I used to string and knot them connects me to my grandmother, one of my most beloved Ancestors. I'm not sure yet if they are more durable than they feel, or if these beads will belong on the altar.

They are beautiful, and I planned out the numbers, the design...and am thankful for the ideas that I sat with while putting them together. The importance of choosing the materials. How the cycles of me making new beads happen. I wouldn't be completely honest if I didn't say I am anxious about what might be on the way now that I understand I seem to make new beads when a new chapter in my life is about to start. Whatever it will be, though, I trust You blessed me with that understanding because it will be helpful to me. Thank You for that.

It is my wish that using these beads in my devotional practice will strengthen bonds and draw me closer to You. As I say in my prayers, "that You receive and are honored by my prayers". I feel like there's still something here I don't get yet, but the answers to several of my questions about making new beads were answered today. I thank You for that blessing and seek to honor You in return.