Warning: spiritual neglect?

The concept, and the seriousness, of neglect is well known. Neglected children suffer huge harm.

But there are other forms of neglect. Ones that we may have done less thinking about. Spiritual neglect would be one example – and this is a neglect that can also do damage, both to us and to others.

Neglect is familiar to us because all of us are prone to neglect things. We might, perhaps, neglect our garden and, ever so slowly, the weeds take over. It never needed much time or attention, but the weeding never got done and soon a jungle took over.