Due to some personal difficulties, my religious practice has waned a bit as of late, as one can see from my blog entries. I have been reading leftist literature, so my intellectual life hasn't quite dried up (I just started D'Amato's The Meaning of Marxism), but I haven't had the time or inclination to continue with what meager Wiccan practice I was doing in the first place.
I do think this is important. I suspect that many Pagans spend little of their time doing their religion. I don't actually have any evidence of this other than my online reading; I haven't really met many real-life Pagans yet. But a spirituality that isn't practiced never goes anywhere, never develops. I can call myself a Wiccan, but that won't mean anything if I don't do anything about it. Religion, like almost any aspect of life, is mostly in the doing. Can you imagine someone calling themselves a tennis player if almost all they did was occasionally watch tennis or read about it?
I've dropped the ball! I suspect some going back to some Wiccan ritual would particularly do me good right now; it is indeed a paradox that when we most need to do something is when we feel most averse to doing it!
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