That I think is the power of ceremony, that it marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine, the coffee to a prayer. The material and the spiritual mingle like grounds mixed with humus, transformed like steam rising from a mug into the morning mist.
What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony, ceremony that makes a home.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,
Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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Now I will be thinking of the difference between the words ceremony from ritual...
Ceremony is hard for my husband He gets uncomfortable in all ceremonies and yes, that included our wedding.
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