The Value Of Family Devotions

Won't daily family devotions eventually become a meaningless ritual?

There must be a home religion, said my wife."I believe in home religion," said [our friend] Bob Stephens, "but not in the outward show of it. The best sort of religion is that which one keeps at the bottom of his heart, and which goes up thence quietly through all his actions, and not the kind that comes through a certain routine of forms and ceremonies.