I may have mentioned it before, but my more favorite prayer book of all time was something I just happened to see at the book store one day. It's "Sister Karol's Book of Spells and Blessings." Sister Karol Jackowski is a Catholic nun and her introduction to the book is absolutely definitive for me in that she describes a time before an established church location for people to worship and pray. With an outstanding play on words, she describes religion originating from the home and that sending out a prayer was simply in invitation to the Gods to come and sit for a spell. How cool is that?
The rest of the book is filled with a myriad of prayers, most of them from the Catholic side of things, of course, but her spells in and of themselves are pure magic on their own.
And like your article, she really emphasizes that there's no right or wrong way or time or place. Spoken from the seat of the soul and it's holy on its own merit.
Haven't been around these parts in a while, so I'm catching up, but thanks for the articles, Trish.