Our family has this tradition of blessing water before meals together but my college-aged son has been making it clear he thinks it's outdated while my younger daughter still loves it, and my spouse and I are caught in the middle trying to keep peace while figuring out what our practices mean as the kids become adults with their own beliefs.
More people experience this than they realize.
Sacred traditions become battlegrounds when family members develop different relationships with inherited practices.
“Where Are You with Water — drinking swimming immersion as practice?”
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