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In the Church it is suggested to read the Book of Mormon every day. I think that doing this, for some time, has been very important to me, because it helped me to develop a good habit, to make my days more spiritual and feel better. However, over time I began to feel that “every day” was more like a burden than anything else. I’m not talking about the content of the BoM. I speak of the message of inadequacy that you can get from “every day”. It is as if it were said: ” you have to do it not only because it is good for you, but also because you’re a natural man and you will never be self-sufficient without.” Maybe for some people it may be true, but it is not taught in the Church, the spiritual self-reliance? It also is not likely to generate feelings of guilt? How can people grow if you do not teach them the importance of flexibility, feeling themselves, without then having to feel guilty listening to a lesson or a talk? I have heard leaders say members of a Ward that no construction of a new chapel was dependent on the dignity and to the level of faith and service of the members of that ward. There is always something that you have been wrong! You were not good enough! I think this kind of messages are likely to be more tools to control others that really help them to grow.
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I try to read / study something that is spiritual in nature for me every day – but I absolutely won’t read the same thing over and over again, every day, no matter what it is. It causes tunnel vision, and I don’t like tunnel vision. Old-Timer wrote:I try to read / study something that is spiritual in nature for me every day – but I absolutely won’t read the same thing over and over again, every day, no matter what it is. It causes tunnel vision, and I don’t like tunnel vision.
This. It isn’t so much the BOM, but repetition of any book(especially strongly worded ones) will cause tons of timbal vision and be emotionally unhealthy. Pick a book, any book, after constant everyday reading it will have the opposite effect of helpful matter how good the book is(even the best books ever). There are tons of spiritual book(most if them not named or labeled as spiritual). Repetition is sometimes important but everyday for years and decades will almost never fell to bring harm and indoctrinate yourself with tunnel vision(anything that everyday repetitious).
There are toms of things that can help you grow and good things do with variety that will help a person grow. As ell
As tons of good books to help you grow. But countless repetition after awhile doesn’t help you to grow, it helps to stagnate, which is the opposite of the desired effect. You can’t grow if most of what you are doing is just repeating in that sphere.
I suggest mixing it up with a wide range of good books that help you to grow. In that way it will help to bit stagnate growth and fill “burnout”. Which tends to happen with to much repetition.
It works well for lots of people and has numerous studies to show the negative of too much repetition and many studies to show positive growth and benefits of mixing it up.
What combination of books helps a person will very from person to person in what helps them.
I think this is a case of a standard that people are almost guaranteed to fail, and it can create a pointless sense of guilt, as if you are not measuring up spiritually if you don’t do it. But even if you did manage to read the Book of Mormon everyday, it would preclude the study of so many other wonderful things—like, you know, the Bible. Or anything else that’s uplifting. I believe the BoM to be a good book containing good, Christian principles and it is worth study and contemplation. I do not believe it to have any more magical power than the Bible or other good worthwhile books to make us better people. The idea that you can do something for an extended period, and then when you cease for a period, that all of that prior effort is for naught is guilt-inducing and counter-productive. I have often pondered the idea that you are only a tithe payer if you are a current tithe payer. You could pay for 70 years and then stop and the 70 year don’t seem to count for anything. This is similar to missing a day reading the Book of Mormon.
The whole concept is counter-productive in my opinion.
Alot of the guilt i started to feel after i first joined the church centered around my scripture reading. I just couldnt do it every day. I worked full time and when i came home late at nite…i wanted to eat and go to bed. I started to slack in other areas too, like prayer and tithing. It has been a domino effect for me. I felt so inadequate…i had a Bishop and his counselors that said they would get up an hour early every day to do their scripture reading to make sure it was done before they did anything else. I solely quit reading the Bible and switched to the BOM to try to accomplish this. Forget any other “pleasure reading”. I feel the church stance that we need to read the BOM every day is unrealistic. I try and read a chapter every day. Apart from Jacob 5. Which takes several. Also don’t read it in order all the time. Some parts are better than others.
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