If you want a Pagan-oriented prayer primer,
Serith's book here might help you get started. Ravenwolf also has a chapter on devotions in her Cauldron book that provides some good tips and pointers. Both of these sources in general will say that devotion and prayer can take many forms. Personally I'd suggest looking at these sources and others you can scrounge up and discovering a form that works well for you. Some people simply like to sit quietly in meditation for five minutes reciting a mantra. Others will create daily devotions to the various times of day. You might prefer to use symbolic gesture and no words at all.
What I often do is incorporate one of the various written recitations I have crafted over the years. Sometimes I do things on the fly and simply let out whatever words wish to flow. I'm not real big on the traditional cakes-and-ale sense of offerings. I find my constant offering of birdseed to the local Winged Ones to be more proper for my path (and boy do they gobble things up fast!).
wink If you like the kitchen witchery, maybe you could greet the herbs you're growing every day or something? Check up on them and see if the need water (gosh knows that's a daily ritual for me
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In general, one could say it's about being mindful. Most of the time we go through the day with a general lack of mindfulness. The moment you stop and really feel the moment of now, in a way, you've done a sort of devotion to honor that moment in time. Just a thought, at any rate.
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