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I can't imagine any part of what a person wants to do being divorced from the importance of the holy scriptures. It's not an either/or situation, it's both/and. You can meditate on the scriptures while doing other things. The one time I was honored to watch the blessed bread being baked for communion (when I stayed the night at the house where the Coptic community worshiped at the time), I noticed that as part of the preparation of it the first thing George (the deacon whose house it was) did was put on a tape of the Psalms being recited in Arabic and begin reciting them along with the tape as he went around the kitchen gathering the ingredients, forming the dough, etc. This is very common, as the Psalms form the bulk of the prayer in the Coptic Agpeya/daily prayer book, and he was awake and active during what would've been the morning hour of prayer (~ 6 AM/sunrise), so it was a way to mediate on the scriptures as we are told to while also being productive. I don't see any reason why you couldn't do the same or similar. It doesn't have to be some big entry into mysticism that takes you out of the world or whatever. Read the Desert Fathers. They are eminently practical.
I think it might be going a little too far, claiming anyone wants to be "divorced" from the scriptures.
But at what level of importance should they be placed? Because the emphasis placed on the importance of the scriptures seems to be fairly recent in my understanding.
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