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Most of us are moving at a ridiculous pace and often sucked into the noise of hustle and grind culture. This dis-ease of modern life puts us out of touch with something essential—the sacredness of who we are and the Divine that pulses through all of life. We've become so disconnected from the soul of existence, from the understanding that the very life we live is sacred. That the air we breathe, the sunlight that kisses our skin, the soil we touch, and the water that nourishes us are all expressions of the Divine.

With rising facism, tragedy in every direction it’s sooo easy to forget, to forget that our lives are the life of God. And when we forget that, we forget the holiness in the simplest things—the way the morning sun paints the sky, the sound of birdsong, the rhythm of our heartbeat. And this is where the antidote and medicine we need is! We’ve been led to believe that we’re separate from the sacredness of the world around us, as if God were a distant force, unreachable and separate which renders us powerless. But what if the truth is far more intimate and profound? What if your very life, right here, right now, is the life of God? And that makes everything—every breath, every gesture, every moment—sacred and powerful.

This is a radical truth, one that many of us have forgotten in the midst of life’s chaos. We’ve been conditioned by toxic systems and structures that want us to feel small, disconnected, and divided. These systems thrive on our disconnection because when we see ourselves as separate, we can more easily be controlled, manipulated, and diminished. But this disconnection from the sacred, from our true divine nature, is a lie.

The Divine has always been present, not just in the abstract, not just in the lofty moments of prayer or meditation, but in every single thing that surrounds us. The sacred is in the air we breathe. The Divine is in the water we drink. God lives in the sunlight that spills across the morning and the moonlight that wraps the night in peace. The Divine is in the soil beneath our feet and in the earth that cradles our hands as we plant seeds.

This sacredness is not something to seek outside ourselves—it is within us and all around us, pulling and streaming and creating more life along the way. We are all part of this greater cosmic dance, and the more we remember our place in it, the more alive we become in our embodiment of it.

But how do we reconnect to this? How do we bring the power of the sacred into our day-to-day lives? One powerful way is through ritual and ceremony. Ritual and ceremony is one of the spiritual practices we include in our community of practice. For many of us ritual and ceremony has been lost to the religions of our childhoods that we long ago rejected or we were raised without any. 

For our ancestors, ritual and ceremony were not separate from daily life—they were a natural part of it. I think of the Dagara people in West Africa and the simple but profound morning question asked of everyone in the village, “Did you hear something sweet last night?" This simple ritual connects the dream realm and relationships in the village. When someone doesn’t hear something sweet in their dreams then they get to the bottom of it with their community's support.* A sweet example of the sacred power of ritual.

Across cultures and histories, ceremony and ritual have been a way of life, naturally living the sacred with no separation between the spiritual and material. These Divine rhythms of living—marking seasons, honoring the harvest, celebrating the cycles of life were not just symbolic acts; they were simply living – spiritual living.

We’ve lost touch with these practices, and in doing so, we’ve lost touch with the sacred in our everyday lives. But the good news is that we get to reclaim the power of the sacred  and our sense of connection and belonging to the Greater Reality. We can begin, right now, to infuse our daily lives with ritual and ceremony that bring us into contact with the Divine. It doesn’t have to be grand or complicated—what matters is that it’s done with intention in a way that is meaningful to you.

This is not about adding another to-do list to your day. It’s not about habit stacking, routine, or doing things out of obligation. It’s about starting from a place of deep knowing—that you are a member of the sacred, and then with some intention you can experience its power in your spiritual living. What if we began to see a single breath we take as a prayer, simple gestures as an offering? What if we invited the sacred into the smallest acts of our day infusing them with spiritual power?

You could begin by lighting a candle in the morning with a prayer of gratitude for the day ahead. You could bless your food before eating, acknowledging the nourishment it provides and the earth that gave it. You could pause for a moment of silence to thank the air you breathe, the sunlight that warms your skin, and the ground that holds you steady.

These simple acts, uplifted and offered with intention, open the door to experiencing the Divine. When we bring ceremony back into our lives, we invite the power of the cosmos to flow through us, as us. As Danielle LaPorte so beautifully says, "Rituals are active blessings for your desired outcomes. Rituals infuse our actions with meaning—they pull in divine support. Rituals crystallize our intention."

You, more consciously connected to the sacred, is what makes us come more powerfully alive, boosting our health, our relationships, our abundance, and our sense of meaning. Because when we acknowledge the sacredness of everything, we are in greater contact with the holy wholeness that is our true nature.

As Matthew Fox writes, "The primary work of the mystic is to be falling in love on a regular basis, not just with a two-legged mate, but with all the elements of existence... The mystic has opened his or her heart to be filled by joy."

So I invite you, as we move more deeply into the sacred to consider: How can ritual and ceremony come alive in your daily life? What small practices can you introduce that will usher you into a more powerful experience of aliveness?

Remember, your very life is the life of God. That makes everything—every breath, every gesture, every moment and opportunity to experience the sacred, wondrous, and the holy. Falling in love with all that is is a pretty great consequence of spiritual living. 

*The Spirit of Intimacy, Sobonfu Somé