Book of Mormon

“Get close to the scriptures.  Do anything you can.  God is in there.  Moses told his people to put bits of scripture in little boxes and, when praying, to tie one box to their arm and the other to their head.  Strap the bible to your forehead.  Wear the Book of Mormon on your sleeve.  Sleep with your scriptures under your pillow…Underline everything.  Pack your margins with notes.  Read Paul out loud like poetry.  Copy the Book of Mormon by hand.  Read the bible backwards one verse at a time.  Tally their letters like numbers.  Squeeze their verses like oranges.  Know Isaiah by heart.  Love Matthew like a brother.  Sing the psalms as your prayers.  Read them in Hebrew.  Read them in Greek.  Read them in Russian and Spanish and Japanese.  Translate them all into English and then back again.  Do like the Lord told Ezekiel:  “’Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.’ So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.’  Don’t just read the scriptures.  Eat them.” (Adam Miller, Letters to a Young Mormon, 31-32)