Ritual

I have been thinking a lot about how we evangelicals react towards rituals. Some argue, for example, praying the Lord's Prayer every Sunday turns into a ritual and we cease to do it without much reflection on what it has to say. But is life not surrounded by rituals that we do without reflection, rituals that give structure  and meaning to our lives? For example, is marriage not a ritual. The same man or woman everyday. We wake up, we kiss, we talk, we share dinner, we go to bed, and the next day we start the whole process again. And we do it often without reflecting much on the meaning of our togetherness. Should we then in the name of proper reflection be married every other month? Absolutely not! Rituals are necessary. They are good-habits formed.