Sunday, September 19, 2010

Spiritual Sundays

Numerous leisure hours have been made available to men. It is noticeable that many use these extra hours for fun and pleasure. Certainly an increased part of it could profitably be used for gaining knowledge and culture through the reading of good books.
Numerous people fail to take advantage of these opportunities. Many people spend hours in planes with only cursory glancing at magazines, and in the train or bus, time is spent "sitting and thinking," and in many cases, "just sitting," when there could be such a constructive program of reading. People in beauty parlors, professional offices, waiting rooms, and elsewhere waste precious hours thumbing through outdated magazines when much valuable reading could be done in these islands of time.... Even in the beginning there was the written word, for Adam and Eve were conscious of the need for the development of the mind, "And by them their children were taught to read and write, having a language which was pure and undefiled." (Moses 6:6.)
- Spencer W. Kimball on Reading

1 comment:

Marie said...

How interesting that even our first parents had the written word.

I have always loved to read, and I am hoping to instill that love with my kids. I'd really be sad if they didn't enjoy the thrill of a good book.