Eat, Pray, Love.............?

I'm gonna try something new and start writing about more than my travels and life in Kuwait.  If you really care one way or the other, please let me know and I can create another blog where I can share my thoughts and beliefs and just use this one to keep people updated on my comings and goings.

My first blog doing this will be my review of "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.   While I didn't love the book, it should be known it made the New York Times best seller list, and I'm pretty sure is being made into a movie.  So there are a large number of people who think highly of this book, if that means anything to you.

While this book is written well and has a lot of useful advice, it is ultimately a cheap band-aid for the many problems facing us today.  I found this book mostly useless because of how little she turns to Jesus and how much she turns to so many other options.  It's so easy to turn to the infinite list of man-made quick fixes, to take a pill to relieve the symptoms, while ignoring the root of the cause.


You can talk about love, peace, happiness, and self-reflect with eloquent speech all you want, but in the end, Jesus is King and man will continue to fail when we lean on ourselves.  When you understand the root problem that man is inadequate, you have to realize that anything man-made cannot be 100% perfect.  One broken gear in a watch will guarantee the time is always wrong.



Edit: So I talked to a friend who loves the book for reasons not applicable to me. It was good to her to see a woman stand up for herself and try to figure out life for herself. To go across the globe if that's what it takes.  I'm all for that.   I would like to make it known that the book was recommended to me from a christian friend and I read it like I would "Blue Like Jazz", or "Mere Christianity".  From my point of view, the book is rubbish.  If you are reading it to learn about a woman escaping a life forced on the her and rebuilding after a failed marriage, then that is a different story.  Considering I will never be in that situation, this book does little for me, it all comes down to where you are coming from and where you would like to go.