Uncomfortable S2 - Day 13

As we finish this week, I want you to think about how you build altars in your life to the goodness of God. 
Many of us collect things. Some do it as a hobby, some as a vocation, and some of us get weird about it. I spent years collecting Coca-Cola cans, bottles, pins, and other paraphernalia. I started this when I was about eight years old. I’m not even sure if I was the one who decided that this would be a good thing to collect; it might have been my parents. Needless to say by the time that I was 16 I had way too much of this stuff. Not all of it was junk. It turned out that when you collect something, everyone helps. I had commemorative cans, shirts, hats, and so much other stuff that finally found its way to the thrift stores of the Inland Empire. 
I had collected so much that a single item didn’t mean much to me anymore. This is the problem with gathering too much; it becomes less valuable. 
When building an altar for the good things God has done in your life, be selective, lean into the big things that God has done, and make the altar something you can’t ignore. 
The next things I collected in my travels were the Asterix comics that are popular in Europe. There are only about 30 of these books; it took me years to get them all. They are funny, artistic, historic, and mean a great deal to me. I have them all, and my kids have read them all as well. I even now have them all on a PDF that I take with me at all times. 
However, there are 30 of them, and I don’t have times and places attached to each. Still, too many. 
Then there is the art that we have inherited from my parents. Miro’s, Hundartwasser, Agam, and many more. I can remember when each was purchased, and they have meaning to me. There are only a few, and scarcity creates a bit more meaning. 
We probably won’t build altars to the everyday work of God in our lives, and our simple living should be those living altars. But when something big happens, make something memorable and unignorable so that when you look at it, you realize that God has been so good to you that you cannot forget. 

1. Do you have anything that marks a big occasion? (Tattoos, Piercings, or anything else?)
2. What kind of altar would be unignorable? 
3. What is the biggest thing God has done for you? 
4. How can worship become that altar that recurs in our lives?