Our most significant relationships and events have a liturgical shape to them. They have rites of passage. Birthdays and homecoming, graduations and goodbyes, Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter, birth and death and marriage: all are marked by words and actions, songs and symbols, customs and traditions that enact them and complete them. And all those things also provide us with a means of entering them. What is a birthday without a cake, at least one candle on it, and a huddle of well-wishers, wearing clownish hats, singing in their ragged, hoary voices?
What is a birthday without liturgy?
What liturgy accomplishes is nothing short of astonishing: It breaks open the transcendent within the ordinary and the everyday. It lets us glimpse a deeper reality--the timeless things, the universal ones, the things above--within the particular instance of it. (emphasis mine)
~Mark Buchanan
(from the Introduction to The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath)
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This is so true and your blog is lovely and you have such a lovely family.
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