{"id":1479,"date":"2023-02-28T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thegardnerianlibrarian\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2023-02-26T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T19:47:53","slug":"no-rest-for-the-wiccad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thegardnerianlibrarian\/2023\/02\/no-rest-for-the-wiccad\/","title":{"rendered":"(No) Rest for the Wicca’d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
What do we usually think of when we think of \u201cwork\u201d? Maybe we think of productivity, a specific place (like an office), or exercise (working out). In all of those cases, we must labor<\/em>, and for some of us, laboring is a struggle. What\u2019s laborious for one person may be a breeze for another, which is why the \u201cWork\u201d I perform in my practice of Wicca may look nothing like anyone else\u2019s. Regardless of what work looks like to you, the point is that it should require some effort from you.<\/p>\n
A few very close friends of mine, who are also Gardnerians, and I often refer to \u201cThe Work\u201d when we talk about Wicca. What we\u2019re referring to is the spiritual, emotional, and physical labor that comes with being religious people in a community (and religious people who lead covens, no less). We don\u2019t call this \u201cwork\u201d to be pejorative but to be precise with our words and respectful of the effort we put into our practices. Practicing Wicca brings contentment, yes, but it requires from us as much as we desire from it.<\/p>\n
The more that we desire from Wicca, the more that we must put into it. For some, the level of commitment required to make Wicca or any other spiritual\/religious practice work just isn\u2019t worth it. Many of us desire easy commitments (or no commitments) to our spiritual practices, leading some of us to give up one commitment for another. Commitment-hopping in spiritual\/religious practices might be a sign of laziness or shallow engagement in some people\u2026OR, it\u2019s a sign that a person is struggling with their spiritual Workload.<\/p>\n