We are created to live in an altar'd state--surrendered, yielded, free.
The noun altar is usually understood to be a place of worshipful offering. Something of value is offered up and released on the altar. When we turn the noun altar into a verb--altar our fear, our failure, our possessiveness, our need to control--all those things that hold us captive and keep us from running the race at full throttle are released.
Through...