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Dear Gramps, My son asked me why it is wrong to play with ouija boards.  He is only seven.  How can I explain to him why we don’t play with these things?  I would really like to give him a reason that he would understand. Any suggestions? CC

Dear CC

You might tell him that people who use ouija boards are trying to make contact with the spirit world, and that the only spirits who would consider responding to such a thing are the bad spirits.

God has already given us a way to contact the spirit world. He tells us that we should talk only with Him, and we don’t need any kind of a mechanism to do so, because He hears every word that we say. If we talk to our Heavenly Father, really believing that He is there, He will answer our prayers according to his perfect love and kindness toward his children.

One of our hymns treats this subject--

Prayer is the simplest form of speech

That infant lips can try,

Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach

The Majesty on high.

Gramps