Spirituality Is a Rehearsal

“For a musician, actor, or athlete, practice and rehearsal are simply steps toward the ultimate goal, the performance — the concert, the play, or the ball game. For a spiritually led person the same is true. The purpose of spiritual practice and rehearsal is to enable each of us to be spiritually led in the performance of our daily lives.

This is not as easy as it sounds. The world is a distracting place. It is like a concert hall before the concert begins: lots of different instruments are making unrelated sounds and audience members are wandering around trying to find their seats. …It is hard to be focused in our daily lives whether with family, at work, or simply going about our daily activities. The challenge is to integrate waiting and watching, to integrate the skills practiced and rehearsed, into our daily lives and allow them to influence our behavior.”

— John Andrew Gallery, 2024 (source)
American Quaker writer