Setting Down the Day

Settle into a comfortable seat in front of your home shrine, or close your eyes wherever you find yourself. Bring to mind your chosen form of the divine, the one you have grown up with. Mentally, take all the day's burdens, the unfinished work, the small fight at home, the bill that worries you, the ache that will not name itself, and place them, one by one, at the deity's feet. Sit with empty hands. Do not pick anything back up. The hands that have been holding so much all day were always meant to be open like this, in the company of the one who already knows.