Ritual is: “…something that holds us when we can’t hold ourselves.” Angie Arendt
Angie and I regularly look at what we consider are the ingredients of joy. Ritual is one we go back to again and again.
Today, I ask: what happens when ritual becomes empty? When Easter weekend, past just last month, is no longer connected to its Christian origins? When Christmas is all about the presents, not the love we all have capacity to share or the birth of a child, born to die for our sins (again, a Christian idea). And what does religion have to offer anymore anyway? Angie would say religion offers a container of teachings and practices that ground us in our belief; rituals help us remember what that’s all about.
This is a good wrestle between Angie and me. And we don’t wrap it up in a bow, but come at it from different places, landing in a more explored place of seeing ritual and its importance.
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