Unstable

I just read another book. It's all of 100 tiny pages, and it's called The Little Prince. That's the second "little" book I've read this week. It's wonderful. Really wonderful. It's a children's story with deep life lessons.

This morning in my bible I read the part in James that says "a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." And I got to thinking about that. The phrase in Greek actually means something like, "Two-life-breath". So it's somebody with a split up breath of life? Someone with two different things that give animation to their being. Somebody with two driving forces in their life, that's why it's translated "double minded." It's somebody who can't make up their mind. Someone who serves two masters, I suppose. No wonder James says they are unstable.
Here's a question for you: how does a person ever get married without being double-minded? The married people I know seem to be really focused on their husbands, and God, without any problem. I am curious about that.
The single people I know are like that Bjork song "It's O So Quiet," do you know it? It's calm and very soothing and the words speak of peace, then the music gets powerfully loud and she's in love, then it stops for a moment... before repeating the cycle. It is rather a long song, and really repetitive. It's very similar to being single, only my experience has had way fewer crecendos. Ok, mabe not.
The point being, that dating (or even not dating, but simply being single with a desire to marry again) is the most distracting and mind-spliting thing ever.
Lots of Christians have written books about how to date.
Or how to not date.
Or that dating is of the Devil and God wants us courting instead.
I've read those books.
Balderdash! I hate them all. There is an abiding dirth of wisdom in all the books. Singledom is just like the rest of life. There are no pat answers. It's messy, and personal, and there's nothing for it but to sally forth with both eyes fixed on Jesus.