Five Blessings of Reading

From BYU Magazine, Summer 2011

1. In reading, we experience one of the greatest pleasures human life can afford us; books sweeten, nourish, brighten, and enrich our lives.
2. Books enable us to live more lives than the one allotted and allow us to experience impossible adventures.
3. Books help us to process, order, and understand our personal experience and gain perspectives on others' lives.
4. Books enable us to see outcomes where we presently see only possibilities; solutions where we presently see only dilemmas; direction where we presently see only impasse.
5. Books allow us an opportunity to learn how to discern the Holy Spirit and respond to its promptings.