"If the adversary cannot entice us to misuse our physical bodies, then one of his most potent tactics is to beguile you and me as embodied spirits to disconnect gradulally and physically from things as they really are. In essence, he encourages us to think and act as if we were in our premortal, unembodied state. And if we let him, he can cunningly employ some aspects of modern technology to accomplish his purposes. Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pizels, texting, earbuds, twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive ises of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person to person communication. Beware of digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience."
Wow! Are you like me, and spending way too much time online? Have you fallen into the trap of texting instead of real phone conversations? These, and many other distractions are part of Satan's plan to make us miserable, just as he is. For more on this subject, I encourage you to read David A. Bednar's full message, given May 3, 2009.
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