{"id":3542,"date":"2009-03-31T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:04:20","slug":"where-i-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/03\/31\/where-i-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mommazen.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/altar-where-i-pray.html\">Karen has an interesting post<\/a> about the altars at which she does not worship and provides a photo of the one that is central in her life. It got me thinking. Years ago I created an altar with items of personal significance. (On the right sits a fertility goddess that I made November 2006, a few weeks before I conceived Bean.) I used to light a candle and incense at this altar. Since moving to our most recent residence, it sits unused on top of a bookcase at the top of a staircase. It never gets used. And since Bean&#8217;s arrival, it wears a shawl of dust. Here is a photo of it (Husband&#8217;s face has been blurred out to respect his privacy):<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/3403219498\/\" title=\"altar by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3556\/3403219498_1b407a1b35.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"altar\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After reading Karen&#8217;s post, I was inspired to share my real altar. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/3402413689\/\" title=\"my real altar by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3441\/3402413689_283c9c3f20.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"my real altar\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I pray at this altar, where I learn to be patient and humble and compassionate, where I have the privilege of caring for the best gift Life has entrusted to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen has an interesting post about the altars at which she does not worship and provides a photo of the one that is central in her life. It got me thinking. Years ago I created an altar with items of personal significance. (On the right sits a fertility goddess that I made November 2006, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-humanities","category-motherhood"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13684,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions\/13684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}