{"id":997,"date":"2005-07-19T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T19:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/19\/invite-the-divine\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:35","slug":"invite-the-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/19\/invite-the-divine\/","title":{"rendered":"Invite the Divine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Home altars can be a space for prayer, meditation, reflection, intention; to me its presence seems like a source of protection and blessing. Home altars connect us to ancient traditions of worship, acknowledging our ancestors and their connection to the divine. In creating an altar in your home you invite the divine into your daily life, I think.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Frances Pullara, <a href=\"http:\/\/redondowriter.typepad.com\/sacredordinary\/2005\/07\/home_altars_can.html\">Sacred Ordinary<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/6629926\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos3.flickr.com\/6629926_0bbece338b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"altar\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a home altar since 1998. It has always contained items of great personal and spiritual meaning. Now I have two. One is in my bedroom; it is a version of the one from 1998, with mostly family photos and tokens &#8212; an altar for my ancestry. The altar in this photo is in the living room; I use it more. There are various Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Pagan elements to it, and there are items from family and friends that have been given in blessing over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home altars can be a space for prayer, meditation, reflection, intention; to me its presence seems like a source of protection and blessing. Home altars connect us to ancient traditions of worship, acknowledging our ancestors and their connection to the divine. In creating an altar in your home you invite the divine into your daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}