Day Thirty-Three // April 3 // Double-mindedness “If you don’t make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.” – E. Stanley Jones –
“I have half-a-mind to git’ you,” my mother would sometimes say. I would traipse dirt onto her newlyswept floor or I would use my “outside voice” inside, and I’d hear it: “I have half-a-mind to git’ you!” With an impish gleam in her own eye, she’d scold me with her half-minded warning… but the other half, the guiding half, the half that always won, was entirely of love. And I would always “git” the point. More often than we’d like to confess, however, we live with a similar condition. We approach life, not halfminded, but double-minded. Unconvinced. Unsure. Unsworn. Sure, we say what we’re supposed to say in church and in all the right company; but in our times