"Some young people are amusing themselves to death—spiritual death." - Dallin H. Oaks, "Good, Better, Best", October 2007 General Conference

I was recently pondering what I had done in the past week and settled my thoughts on a significant amount of time and effort that I had spent on determining the entertainment I wanted to participate in or have available for me to view. I had picked out some great shows to watch or things to do! What caused me to reflect was the emphasis I had placed on it. Good, clean entertainment is important in today's world and it can be a wholesome thing. But part of me wondered if it might not just be young people who might be "amusing themselves to death."

Obviously life brings with it an ebb and flow of where our time and attention goes, but this question gave me pause and might be a useful tool to, on occasion, take a measurement of where we are at with this, "Do I spend more time planning and pursuing my entertainment than I do my spirituality?"

President Brigham Young said: “The worst fear that I have about [members of this Church] is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and his people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell.