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Cookie Hunter

Home Altar Setup

How to Setup and Decorate a Home/Family Altar

By Evangelist Cookie Hunter

Revised, March 28, 2012

A Home/Family Altar is a place to go to for meditation, worship, prayer, devotion and/or bible study. It can be in an apartment, a home, a cabin, on a boat or anywhere you desire. You can use your choice of furniture. Decoration is your choice also. Make it beautiful. Make it a Holy place!

Instructions:

Things you will need:

Small Table or Cabinet

Cloth of your choice

Plants or Flowers 

Candles 

Incense

Cross

Statuary/Pictures

Ancestral Pieces- Something given to you by a relative or that reminds you of them.

Bible or Prayer Book

Prayer List/Note pad

Chair or Pillow or Mat

1. Choose what you will use as an altar. This could be a favorite desk, an antique side table, a shelf of any material, a dresser, a cabinet or any solid surface that is study enough. I prefer to use wood, although I do have a shelf made of metal too. Wood is more natural and comes from the earth.

2. Choose where you will place your altar. It should be a place where there is little or no immediate traffic and you can sit or stand quietly without interruptions. This will decrease the likelihood that visitors or children will tamper with or otherwise upset your altar. If you wish to share your altar space with visitors, ask them not to touch things without asking you. 

3. Place your chosen items on your altar. The cloth can be whatever you like, just keep it within the realm of the spiritual. I have used  African prints, Lace and Satin for my coverings. I like to use the colors of Royalty, purple, gold, green, blue. Candles in brass or glass holders are ideal. You may feel the need to light them when you are in prayer or meditation. Incense is a nice addition and it fills the whole house with the aroma of spiritual sweetness.  A cross and/ or spiritual statutes or pictures of Jesus helps to visually be intuned to the Holy Spirit. I like to use Angels and Crystals too. It's your choice. Ancestral pieces can be Grandpas watch or Auntie’s gold necklace or your childhood hair clips. You can also include your certificates of accomplishments. Connecting your past to your future is an important part of your spiritual growth. A book of inspirational reading or a bible can be placed on your altar and used for meditation or study. I find that a prayer list is always helpful. It can be an index card or a sheet of paper or a note pad. When I pray for others, I always place there name on the prayer list in a decorative bowl on my altar. You can stand or may prefer to sit in a chair or on a mat or pillow on the floor during meditation, which is perfectly fine. I use a cabinet. It can store books and other resources which may come in handy for study and meditation.

4. When you have your altar set up, dedicate it. This will give it a specific purpose for prayer and meditation. Your personal prayer or dedication should be of your own words from your heart. Always approach and leave your altar in a spiritual posture. Enjoy your altar! 

This Writing Life!

As i grow in this writing life, i am often humbled by the people i meet on my journey to self. The poetry groups that i have been blessed to be a member of, have helped to encourage me more than you will ever know. The blog talk shows have taught me so much about myself.

As i was going through some papers a few years ago searching for a document, i came across some stories and poems i wrote in 1977 and 2002. I was very surprised at the pieces i had written and found myself reading them over and over again with profound joy! I started to write again with great passion. My fingers could not type fast enough! Those of you who know my personal story, know the struggle i went through getting back to myself after the stroke i suffered in 2002.

I am happy to say that i have been writing more and re-writing my past works for presentation in the near future. It is time for this baby to be birthed! Time to arch my back and grunt it out! Or as my beloved Brother Bill would say, "Get it in"!
Thank you all for your encouragement and love!
Cookie

I Can't Be

I can’t be

I can’t be with you

I can’t be where you can see me go through the pain

I can’t be what I need to be

To you

For you

With you.

I can’t let myself be myself

I’m not myself

The self that I can show you

I can’t be what I need to be

For you

For me.

I can’t not be me

For you to see

I can’t be what I need to be

For you

For me

But I see

Without you

I can’t be.

  

©Merie  Cookie Hunter 2002

Phlick, Phlack, Phlo.

Phlick, Phlack, Phlo

By

Evangelist Cookie Hunter




Plick
That bug off of me.
Hope he lands on his feet.

Phlack
Take my arm back
From natures attack.

Phlo
From yesterdays memories
To the next phase with ease.


My nature is ripe
For the sting of the bug of life.

My seed is ready to birth forth,
Draped in nectar
For such a time
As newness crowns today.

Phlick, Phlack, Phlo!
Moving, being, forging onward.
Today, the morning and the evening phorm.
Tomorrow, tomorrow.
Breaking, transcending forward.
The core of my heart spills out
Empty, fresh, new
Looking toward.

Serging, seeking
Hoping, dreaming
What will it be this time?

Coursing to rhyme

Choosing to find
Just one more time.

Time.

Phlick.

Phlack.

Phlo.







©Evangelist Cookie Hunter December 29, 2010

I Never Knew

I Never Knew

By
Evangelist Cookie Hunter





I never knew how
My heart could hurt so
Bad.

Never knew how love could be so
Sad.

Rolling along the path of
Life.
Strife.
Love.
Death.

Conteous of my fellow man is all.
We fall.
We reach.
Up.
Back.

I never knew if I would
Catch on.
Hold on.
Lead on.
Leave behind.


My soul is consumed with fire.
Should i.
Would i.
Could i.
Reach up, reach back, catch on, hold on.

I never knew I could.



©Evangelist Cookie Hunter December 29, 2010

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