Khaire Hekate Soteria!

I started these prayers meditating on some of Your epithets...oh, it seems so long ago now! You know the list I keep. I know Your epithets are many more than just that list. At the time, I thought this would keep me returning to prayer, helping me establish a regular practice and growing closer to you.

I could say it didn't work as I had planned. I could name the many ways other things have been focused on, and these prayers that highlight Your names get put on hold. But don't I always return to them? There are three more on the list after this one, and I have known every step of the way that I will keep going through them all. The path You lead me on winds and bends. I keep walking. So maybe it did work, after all.

Hail Hekate Soteria!

The religion I was raised in looks to a particular figure as a savior, and I wanted to take time with this to make sure I wasn't just reassigning what I was taught then to You. The works I've studied do not tell me that You will save my soul from its own flaws. If anything, those works may sometimes speak of the flaws to be found in mortal existence, but more because of how limited we are than because of some moral unworthiness.

Instead, You are spoken of as a Savior who intervenes, protects, and delivers us from unnecessary harm. Glorious Hekate, You know why this is difficult for me, on a personal level, to come to terms with. I could ask so many questions. What is necessary versus unnecessary? What determines when we will be protected and when we will not? And You know how very personal those questions are for me.

I'm not here to ask for answers from You, though. Those questions and any challenges that seem to go with them may have their place (and the challenges may be more for me), but tonight I am here to praise You for the protection You bless us with! The protection You have blessed me with, though I struggle with always seeing it as blessing. That is not a criticism of You, but an admittance of my own limitations.

May I be enfolded in the arms of Hekate, and may She guide and protect me always.

Khaire Hekate Soteria!