In actually, we do pray. We pray when we work a spell, we pray when we run ritual. And we pray daily to our Gods, though most of us do not call it prayer, we call it communicating.

Do I pray? No, I do not feel that I pray. Prayer is a plea in my opinion, and my Gods to not need me to plea, beg or whine. They just need me to talk to them. So I talk with my Gods daily. I do not take the role of supplicant, I take the role of what I am, a child talking to a very patient parent.

For some, it is a one way conversation. For others, when the time is right, it stops being a one way conversation and becomes an actual communication with the Gods. No, I am not talking about sitting there talking to them, and hearing their words large as life. For each person, it is different. For me, the Lady walks with me in a dreamscape, and we talk about issues that trouble me, or things that I need guidance on. The Lord has taken me on the Wild Hunt many times, and we talk of the never ending cycles of life, death, conflict and how to address them.

For my wife, when she needs to communicate with the Lord and Lady, she does it by going back to nature. She will find an area with woods, and the Gods talk to her through the wind, the sound of the trees moving in the breeze, the insects. She takes great comfort in these times.

Prayer is over rated. At some point, someone decided that in order to speak with a god, it was necessary to bend your knee in supplication (either physically or mentally) and make a plea to that god. This was suppose to be the only way that you could get your god to listen. Then it was labeled as prayer, and it only worked if you showed the proper amount of respect while doing it.

I show my respect by actually talking to my Gods. They are the original mother and father, we are their children. I do not expect my children to speak to me in pleading tones in order for me to answer and assist them, so I do not think the Lady and Lord expect that from us, their children, either.