The Cover Doesn't Tell You Much so we need to discriminate

This past spring our local library had a book sale.  I had never noticed that they did this before...

but I was intrigued.

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So Aiden and I waited for about 30 minutes to get in on this.
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We found some 'great' books.  All the books we had purchased I had never read nor had I ever heard of the authors.
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One of the books I chose for me had a very old picture (I'm talking 1800's) of a woman.  The title is 98 REASONS FOR BEING.  I thought this would be some philisophical read.  I like that kind of stuff...
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Well, I just started to read it and I like to read the jacket just before I dive into a book.......
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In 1852, girl named Hannah Meyer, an inhabitatnt of Franfurt's notorious Jewish ghetto, is admitted to the town asylum....wagging tongues have resulted in a diagnosis of NYMPHOMANIA....
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What the Flip!!!

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That is not what I was prepared for!!!!

This is a lesson in what things seem to be really are not at what they are.

I never read the book...I stop after page 38, figured it was a waste of my time and threw it out!

This is how life is...for example, the way a person looks does not in anyway tell you who they are.  As a society we are "trained" to judge a book by it's cover.  We do it every day, whether we will admit it or not.
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 We discriminate.
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Now don't go thinking that this is going to turn into some racial crap it isn't.
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I look at proper discrimation as discerning between things which are good for you and that which is not.

We need to discern all things. Foods we eat, places we take our families, things we talk about, who we socialize with, things we allow to take up percious storage in our minds (i.e. good/bad books, movies, music internet sites , and the list can go on.)
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I am so grateful for the gift of discernment.  Thanks to Adam and Eve we are all blessed to know good from evil,  pleasure from pain, happiness from misery.  And thanks to a Heavenly Father who allowed us to have free agency/the power to chose. 

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I haven't always used good discernment, and I have paid the price for those choices but I think I am on the right path now and I pray that I will always hold onto the iron rod and my faith to help me to continue to use good discernment.