Sorry, but I have to work on a talk for this Sunday. But I'll leave you with some food for thought that I found as I did my research.
- Wendell Berry, a thoughtful contemporary writer on the family, has said: “TV and other media have learned to suggest with increasing subtlety … that it is better to consume than to produce, to buy than to grow or make, to ‘go out’ than to stay home. If you have a TV, your children will be subjected almost from the cradle to an overwhelming insinuation that all worth experiencing is somewhere else and that all worth having must be bought.” (The Gift of Good Land, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981, p. 156.)
- "If in matters of faith and belief children are at risk of being swept downstream by this intellectual current or that cultural rapid, we as their parents must be more certain than ever to hold to anchored, unmistakable moorings clearly recognizable to those of our own household…. No, we can hardly expect the children to get to shore safely if the parents don’t seem to know where to anchor their own boat." (Jeffrey R. Holland)
- "Nephi taught clearly that the Holy Ghost 'is the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him' and that 'he that diligently seeketh shall find' (1 Ne. 10:17, 19). The stunning reality, my dear brothers and sisters, is that you control how close you are to the Lord. You determine just how clear and readily available promptings from the Holy Ghost will be. You determine this by your actions, by your attitude, by the choices you make, by the things you watch and wear and listen to and read, and by how consistently and sincerely you invite the Spirit into your life." (M. Russell Ballard)
