I wanna be that person who just radiates nice energy like, I wanna be that person who you’ve never spoken to before but you think of me as a friend already. I wanna be that person you feel that you can come to for advice whenever, or someone who makes you feel better by just talking to you. I’m gonna try really hard to be that person.
The gods were never gone, they were never dead. The only thing that changed was that we stopped listening.
We still have the weather, thunder and rain. Zeus calls down his storms both in peace to keep our lives safe, and in anger to wreak destruction. We might be better at predicting what is coming, but if the rain stopped coming, what would we do? We depend on the rain, and fear the storm.
More than 90% of the world’s trade comes by the sea. Poseidon watches over the sailors on the oceans, gives to fish to those who hunger, and gives protection to more than half of the life on the world, guarding the oceans and rivers.
Death is still is a part of our lives. When we die, Charon takes us across the rivers of the Underworld, and we face our fates. Hades still watches over the sick, giving strength and life to those still with work left undone, and guards those who find their end, judging them as befitting their deeds.
Love is as strong as before. Love still finds it’s way, no matter how we might try to crush it under a world of apathy and industry. Aphrodite finds those that need love in their lives, and she gives them the courage to take their leaps. Young couples still find Eros, families find their Storge, and marriages find their Pragma.
Homes are still as strong, and as broken as ever. Hera gives lovers the strength to overcome their problems, the endurance to see past the faults in those they love to find the perfection inside. She guards the children of broken homes, and shows the light to those that need it in their lives, to build their own families.
Warfare has changed drastically, coming at longer ranges, but war is as terrible as ever. Ares gives his strength to the weary legs of a soldier on march, and stills the nervous hands gripping at a rifle. He gives life to the wounded, and courage to the broken.
War is bigger now, more complicated. General staffs spend years drawing and redrawing their plans, preparing the perfect ideas to spare the world as much horror as they can. Athena gives wisdom to her field marshals, her officers, that they might know the best path.
Food is needed for every single person in the world. Demeter gives us a bountiful, full harvest so that we might not starve. She holds the hand of those working in the scorching fields, that their work may not be for nothing. She protects the abused animals in the factory farms, and she feuds with her brothers and sisters so that their wrath may not destroy the harvest.
Creation is an essential part of life. Hephaestus watches over not only the smiths, but the writers, the artists and every other smith of creation. He watches men build their battleships, lay the bricks of their buildings that might touch the sky, and the production of that which might not only keep us alive, but to make us prosper.
The gods aren’t gone, and they haven’t forgotten any of us. Even if we stop listening, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t there.
Asking for help isn’t ever a bad thing, but sometimes it’s nice to know that we don’t have to have someone else do things for us when we’re struggling, sometimes we just need another perspective to help us see how we can help ourselves 💡
And there are obviously tons more. You can use Charity Navigator to check out most charitable orgs before you give.
The Florence Congregational Church in Florence MA is currently collecting donations in order to purchase and transport LifeStraw family packs to Puerto Rico so that the water that is currently around can be sanitized for drinking even in areas where the fresh supplies have yet to reach. They’re working nationally with interfaith and veteran organizations to do this. If you want to donate you can get in touch and ask how to best do so. They currently have funding for 100 packs which is simultaneously a lot and only a drop in the bucket of what’s needed.
I saw someone post today that they didn’t even know trans lesbians were a thing except very recently, and I guess that’s a failure on the part of those from my generation and above who haven’t passed down enough history. So here’s some history for you.
There’s also Carol Riddell who was active in radical feminist organizing in Britain in the 1970′s
