Column of the week: Self Help

I recently made a trip to the Border's Bookstore. I was looking for a book that I had heard about on the today show.  It sounded interesting.  It was about being confident and having good self-image as a woman.  I finally I found myself back in the back of the book store.  The book was under self-help.  I imagine this section is hidden in the back because no one wants to admit it when they need help, nor do they want people seeing them grab "Idiots Guide to a Good Relationship"...or "Idiots Guide" to anything... However, when I did finally reach the self-help section, I stood there in amazement.  There were so many books.  There were so many self-help books it was unbelievable.  There was a self-help book on just about everything.  I've looked at a lot of books like this, however, I did not know the extent to which the American population shovelled out money to get self-help.  From a book.  As I sit there in awe, scanning the books over looking for my book, I thought about the different topics of all the books and was hit with a deafening sadness.  There were books about how to live like a skinny b****.  Who really wants to be a b****?  Or how to loose weight by eating junk food.  Okay, if you pick that book up you may really need an idiots guide-to life.  I was standing there taking it all in.  When something that my mom had once said to me suddenly appeared in my mind, "When I need help with something, I find it in the Bible; That's my self-book".  And how right!  If only all of these people who were about to spend hours reading these books just put their faith in the Bible and sought it out for "self-help" the world might be a better place.  I know one thing, we may not have as many Skinny B*****es!  Anyways, the ending to this story is that I opened the book I finally found, and I think God answered my questions about the book.  After only about three pages they said that you should pick and choose the rules you live by when looking for inner strength. Then they went on to say something like "this is like religion, Christians believe in God, but pick and choose the rules that work for their lives"....While this tends to happen, it is a struggle, definitely not a choice, and not what its about :).  I ended up finding the best self-help book~thanks mom!