This is one of my personal prayers I've written and recite relatively often, in this case, to Zeus. I felt like sharing it here today. I have quite a few written prayers in my journals, that I recite when I feel is right, while also having daily prayers to Zeus and the Gods (and soon, will add one to my GD), where I more directly communicate, but I've found reciting pre-written prayers can have its benefits, both in communication and connection, and as an experience for me personally, my mental state and growth. What is key here is that I write these based on truthful feelings, and not as blind reverence. Everything here is based on what I truly feel, what I truly want, and what I am truly thankful for. I like to write these like poetry, where every single word is meaningful to me.
"Father Zevs, I am thankful for everything you have blessed me with, and continue to bless me with. I am thankful for everything you have taught me, and continue to teach me. I am thankful for every time you helped me when challenges were beyond me, and for knowing you will always help me when my power is insufficient. I am thankful for the path of Zevism, and the privilege it is to walk it.
I have seen the path of Godhead, the path of evolution. In a world of false spiritual paths, I am walking the real path. I have grown, through this life and all my lives, to see and to wish for higher callings, greater purposes. While the material still maintains me, spiritual growth is where my deepest purpose lies, what my deepest desire is.
I do not desire to be famous and adored, besides of helping people when I can. I do not desire to be extremely wealthy, besides of living a comfortable and pleasant life. I do not desire the greatest love life, besides of having my partner, who offers me comfort, connection, and moments of passion. I know and have lived to know that these have their role, but they will never be my greatest purpose.
I desire to be on the path, and to advance on the path, more greatly than anything else. I desire to advance in meditation, to have higher and higher energy, to see more and more of the truth beyond mayic existence, to have higher and higher power to shape the world around me into what it needs to be for growth, and I desire Godhead. Beyond chasing higher existence, I find all else to be illusion.
If it is in my path to be famous, I will make the most of it. If it is in my path to be very wealthy, I will make the most of it. If it is in my path to leave a grand legacy, I will make the most of it. If it is Dharma, if it is the way to my advancement, I will follow it. But none of these things can deter me from the path, and from my love for you and the Gods.
Help my needs be met, help my judgement be clear, help ease my meditative path, help me avoid disaster, and help me handle it all myself.
My home is with the Gods, with their path. In their embrace, in their family, in their teachings. It always has been, and I am grateful to have learned this early in this incarnation. I am grateful that the path of Zevism exists in this moment, and that I am back within your assembly. I am grateful for all the Zevists who advance along with me, for the Guardians who taught me and many others, and for the High Priests who spearhead it all. May this path keep existing, and may all who are able to understand and receive it, join it as initiates.
I thank you most of all, and first of all, Father Zevs, as you are the source of it all."