I believe that religion and spirituality can be both simple and complex. While I hold complex beliefs, my expression and practice of those beliefs are incredibly casual, but also respectful. Everyday is reverence by acknowledging the gods of the day I've chosen for a particular group. (I have a lot of gods I honor and each I do so on a specific day of the week.) I don't have time constraints or specific things I do. Only that I speak to them on that day and acknowledge the help or ask for guidance upon that day and thank them, even if they've never given me anything I'm asking for.
I also honor gods who I believe bring the harvest, like Freyr. I always ask him that I continue to receive his bounties of the Land, and his father as well, Njord, his blessing of pure filtered water.
Some gods and goddesses I only say a few words to, while others it's very drawn out. I never expect, but I always give in good faith, because I believe that the gods are with and around me, even in times of great strife. They don't suddenly make things better, but they remind me of what's important and help me to realise I can go on in life. They help me in subtle and seemingly mundane ways, and I appreciate their presence and what they do in nature and their interaction in my life.
Honor or worship doesn't have to be intense, it can be relaxed without ritual or specific things. While I will at times use more formal addressing or even sing their praises in song, or call upon the gods around me by using galdr, it is generally a very relaxed method of interaction.
I don't wear special clothes, I wear everyday things, I mostly don't use tools, I just use myself, my altar, and the statues that help me in representing them. I speak to the statues more as something to look at, so I can see a face, but the gods aren't within those, merely a tool used or in some way a connection through the statue with the depiction of lore.
But this is a luxury. One doesn't need statues or tools, or anything. You can do all that without anything but yourself. The gods are always participating within the world. It's just a matter of listening, looking. Their actions are all around us. Not for some woo meaningful reason, but because they are what makes nature work. So to honor those actions, Hels influence in the decay, Freyrs in the harvest and growth, Idunn in beauty and nutrition, Odin within and out of us, Thor the movement of clouds and Placer of storms, Njord the waters themselves and their currents. The Norns the circumstances of life and its randomness and our luck.
The gods are within these things. They aren't those things in the entirety, but the existence of those things, in my own belief, are their interaction with the world. It is that which I mostly honor and acknowledge and any wisdom or help I feel they've relayed to me in some fashion or another.












