Everyday rituals
During Travis's Maundy Thursday homily, he challenged us to consider what kinds of everyday ritual can we create or adapt to aid us in our spiritual growth. Karen Kelsey had previously mentioned her newly acquired habit of singing "I am gonna live so God can use me" while washing her hands. Below is what came to mind for me - how about you? If you have something worth sharing, please consider writing a blog post about it. *** OK. Let’s see if I can do this without revealing my passwords that would give you comprehensive access to my email account and bank accounts! For the last few years I’ve followed the widely offered advice of creating passwords that are relatively long nonsense “passphrases,” using a key that means something to me and to me only. I tend to adapt arbitrary phrases that flit across my consciousness by taking the initial letters of the words and shaping them into a phrase. “Don’t forget to get milks and eggs” could become “Dftgmae” for instance...