Enshrine

Things are nothing if not interesting.
I decided this was dictionary day.  I did the usual shutting my eyes and turning the dictionary this way and that till I was totally unaware if the dictionary was up or down, or I was pointing at the back or front.
When I opened my eyes I found my finger was pointing not to the word before which was ensemble or the one after which was enshroud but to enshrine.  It’s meaning was, “enclose in shrine; serve as shrine for (precious thing: lit. or fig.)”.  The Collins dictionary said, “to place or enclose something in or as if in a shrine, or to hold it as sacred or cherish it.”
Fair dinkum I do not remember ever having considered that word.  But I am now.  When I think about it, I have heard it in relation to laws as in “enshrined in law.”
I do have a bit of a problem with shrines.  For me I don’t mind mementos.  I have kept a few as reminders of visits.  I have a few evidences of my mum and dad and brother.  They are reminders of them.
But I am unsure of enshrining something.  I do think things need to be written and form the basis of societies actions.  But to me often the writing down of something is the complication of something.  It needs to be done, yet I personally feel that obedience to laws is an attitude rather than an intellectual issue.
For me what I need to do is summed up by loving God and others.  If I do those, I will not be inclined to do what hurts me or others.
Something I hold to is that truth is ancient and not dependant on the “latest discovery.”  In other words, someone living in the 4th century does not lack essentials.  Now is better in that discoveries have made life easier, but nothing has changed to now make life meaningful where in times past, it was not.  To me loving God and others stands through the ages.
So I guess to me enshrining stuff is an internal thing.