The Moving Shrine

I love the space where I normally say prayers and offer gifts to You. I can't always be in that space, though. So I carry the little box of things to put together a portable shrine wherever I am. The idea was uncomfortable for me at first. I had carried portable altars, but it seemed like Your shrines should just be built where they are - no matter how simple it might need to be - and then left there.

Eventually, I realized that is a good idea, and I may do things that way sometimes, but this little box serves a specific purpose. This is for being able to open our space.The space where I welcome You in and give some of it for You. Not just calling to You and hoping You'll come to me, but creating room to say, "This is my space, and I have decided it is Your space, as well." The little box let's me say, "This is my space for now, and so I will make it Yours, as well."

And of course it would make sense for the shrine to move! How did I not see it before? 

I like to think that one days I will have statues and icons that could only be seen as representing You. I didn't grow up with these images being part of my family's religion, and yet they were available when I needed to represent You. And I think about the history, the mythology, the legends, the tales... Maybe You will want me to change them someday. Maybe not. I don't know, and it won't be my decision. You decided how You should be represented in Your space.