Today’s post is a guest contribution from author, ancestor worker, and Loki’s woman Laura Patsouris. Here, she notes something that many devotees of this beloved, scar-lipped God have noticed: His tremendous compassion for those our society would throw away, for those bullied, for those broken and damaged, particularly if they have been so by those people who should care for and love them. Those of us who belong to Him, or who simply love and honor Him have long noticed that He will often reach out and extend an arm of protection around those who don’t belong to Him at all, but who simply have no one else to care for them and moreover He often expects us to do so too. He does not allow His people to treat the walking wounded among us as disposable. That is, perhaps, part of His least acknowledged ‘medicine.’ His capacity for caring is beyond measure.
Laura writes:
“I have noticed that Loki loves and accepts and shelters those whom society discards and dismisses and protects those who have been abused. Loki’s lesson is that there is no such thing as a throw-away child, or disposable people. He sees the value in us even when we fail to see it in ourselves. With this in mind, I wrote this prayer:
Loki lover of misfits, walker in liminal spaces,
I turn to You.
Be my strength when I am weak and love me in my brokenness.
Help me to see myself as You do
and to rise above the limitations society would put on human expression
and diversity.
Help me to know the sacredness of the outcast and the truth-teller.
Help me to turn what society sees as weakness into my greatest strengths
and help me to never forget what it was like to be shunned.
Help me to provide safe harbor for all the other misfits, outcasts and tired travelers who walk Your winding road.
Hail Loki!”
Hail, Loki, indeed!
(About the image: the image is a Faroese stamp depicting Sigyn holding the bowl to protect Loki from poison as He lies fettered in the cave).
Laura writes:
“I have noticed that Loki loves and accepts and shelters those whom society discards and dismisses and protects those who have been abused. Loki’s lesson is that there is no such thing as a throw-away child, or disposable people. He sees the value in us even when we fail to see it in ourselves. With this in mind, I wrote this prayer:
Loki lover of misfits, walker in liminal spaces,
I turn to You.
Be my strength when I am weak and love me in my brokenness.
Help me to see myself as You do
and to rise above the limitations society would put on human expression
and diversity.
Help me to know the sacredness of the outcast and the truth-teller.
Help me to turn what society sees as weakness into my greatest strengths
and help me to never forget what it was like to be shunned.
Help me to provide safe harbor for all the other misfits, outcasts and tired travelers who walk Your winding road.
Hail Loki!”
Hail, Loki, indeed!
(About the image: the image is a Faroese stamp depicting Sigyn holding the bowl to protect Loki from poison as He lies fettered in the cave).
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