Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. That’s at the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deemed worthy of representing something bigger than ourselves. Some rituals are very private, some are very public. Some are so commonplace we don’t even

If long ago you did something and felt safe or powerful as a result, it would make sense that out of a yearning to return to that feeling, you made a ritual of it. Did it again and again and again and again and again. You made of it what Steindl-Rast calls a “personal holy place.”