Gleaning as A Spiritual Practice

Our contribution this morning comes from Brigid Walsh from Mitcham Australia.  She like me is interested in contemplation and activism.  She blogs at Desert.

In this day and age, many people – even a very good Marxist atheist friend of mine – admit to spirituality. May people consider themselves spiritual or spiritual seekers while not owning a specific spiritual tradition. And, I say to myself, why not? If, as some of us believe, we are here to learn stuff and that stuff is of a spiritual nature, then all of us, whether we realise it or are oblivious to it, are on a spiritual journey.

Some of us do this in formal and structured ways. We study religious texts. We pray in certain ways. We study in certain institutions. Some of us though find ourselves entering the spiritual dimension in multitudinous ways. While I express my spirituality through two traditions – Anglican and Quaker – I find that in living my life the spiritual is expressed in many ways.

The responses Christine has attracted are testimony to this. I wish to add another: gleaning.  Read the entire article