Turning Every-Day Actions into Spiritual Rituals

Interjecting from my post yesterday about rituals and commercialism, I wanted to expand on the idea of rituals as they relate to faith.

I do not believe there is specific, magical power in communion or church attendance, but I do believe communion is a way to interact with God (just as sharing a meal is a way to interact with friends) and that there is power in the meditative aspect of the act. That is, there is power in the interaction, the power to be influence by the person (or Deity) with ...