There are deeply liturgical acts that one can do outside the confines of the church building but well within the home God made called earth. One of these is altar building. Our family builds altars. I do not know why we started, but I do have a picture of the first one. It was celebrating the gift of our first piece of earth we owned, (on loan from God). The picture is below. But I regress. Yesterday, in celebration of a great milestone in our family and a greater need for thanksgiving and praise, we built an altar, For Thou O Lord, to give God praise, honor, and thanksgiving for His miraculous healing of our sweet Mary Elizabeth Benson Carbonell five years ago. Yesterday was one of the grandest days of our family's history. We gave God praise, we gave Sissy gifts of commemoration, we prayed, held one another, wept in joy, sang, worshiped, and built an Altar to acknowledge Him. At sunset, we listened to the song below, raised hands and sweet laughter to our Lord, sang again our anthemed Doxology, anointed For Thou O Lord, and prayed again, the bow on our collective hearts to God. Amen.
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