Perseverate:
(verb, intransitive, chiefly psychology) To persist in doing something; to continue to repeat an action after the original stimulus has ended.
I am on the autism spectrum. One of the things about most of us is that we perseverate on things. Some autistics perseverate on Legos, or trains, or scripts from movies and songs. I perseverate on God or more accurately on divinity. It’s been said you can take the boy out of the church but you can’t take the church out of the boy. I am very much a creature of that adage. My religion is a personal one. I have little rituals throughout the day that pay homage to the divine as I understand it. Work is holy and I try to do my work with God in mind. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a religious text in its entirety. So the stimulus has long since ended. I don’t go to sacrament meetings, or pay my tithes, or follow the dietary restrictions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I’m not good at keeping the covenants of my baptism. But I “think celestial” as The Prophet puts it. I am in the divine most of the time. I can’t escape it in my life and a certainly can’t escape it in my mind. God watches me and I watch God.
Latter Day Sinner 