A little help from Aesclepius

I burned my hand last night cooking supper.  Grabbed a spoon that had been pushed a little too close to a burner and the plastic melted into my skin.  I did what was necessary...ice, ice and more ice and prayed to Aesclepius.  No redness or blisters this morning.  I'm thinking of offering milk to the god tonight; we're running low but it's what I feel like offering.  I could offer grape juice but I really feel that milk is what's required.  It feels quite natural these days to pray and offer up gifts to the gods.  Prayer used to be a hard thing for me to do and I still struggle with the Christian-type of prayers that order the deity to do something for me.  And I'm not lying when I say that we always bossed Yahweh around.  I try to focus my prayers on May it be-types.  Instead of insisting something happen on my behalf.

And so, in gratitude, I'm offering up milk.  Because I am very grateful that my knitting won't be interrupted by a bad burn.

I haven't done much studying since I got home.  The fatigue has been overwhelming since returning from Indiana.  I had pushed myself the whole weekend and didn't really allow for any recovery so now I'm paying for that.  I think I'm going to take it easy tonight...another early night and then I will force myself to sleep in.  As late as my father will allow anyway.  He's going to call from the nursing home tomorrow morning so I can talk to my mother.  I figure it will be around 9 or so when she gets out of rehab.  At least I hope it's that late.  I haven't been able to sleep in since I got back.

Zach wants to work together on folk magic, herb lore and other types.  I know some Hellenic polytheists don't believe magic is compatible with the Greek gods but I don't have that compunction.  I think they probably did practice the folk magic along with herbs and stones and such.  At any rate, this is my path and I really feel drawn to magic and finally am ready to start practicing it so...who cares what anyone else thinks? 

I can't keep my eyes open so I think I'll go ahead and shut the curtains, shut down the computer, do ritual and then crawl into bed.  If I go to sleep this early I do.  I'm just so tired right now.