Here are a few ideas for “making sacred.” I make home sacred by:
- Receiving it with gratitude, noticing its details from day to day.
- Attending to its needs: taking care of a physical house, nurturing an important relationship.
- Remembering the important moments that occur there—through scrapbooks, photographs, storytelling, song, paintings . . .
- Offering it to others, by opening its doors and receiving people for who and where they are.
- Developing its beauty, whether planting a garden in a permanent home or building temporary shrines—prayer altar, photo collection, important objects of beauty and meaning—in tents, hotel rooms, and rented apartments.
- Filling its space with conversations that are meaningful and with activities that are hopeful.
- Cleaning it out from time to time, removing clutter that is physical, spiritual, or emotional.
Please add your ideas as well!