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I'm Patrick Miller. My son is going through a bit of a phase right now. A

lying phase. For no apparent reason he tells fib after fib and he doesn't even care

if it's obvious or not that he's lying.

For example, the other day he was kicking a cabinet while I was eating breakfast, and so I asked

him to stop kicking the cabinet. And he says to me with a straight face while kicking it I'm not

kicking it yes you are I responded no I'm not that's not me he told me

so we've been having a lot of conversations about trust and honesty and there's nothing surprising about any of this.

He's only five years old and as the proverbs say, Folly is wrapped up in the heart of a child.

In a similar way, English speakers will call someone

acting foolishly childish. So that means that us adults, we never act childishly, right?

Adults never lie to protect their reputation, to cover up a wrongdoing, to hide a painful

truth, to take credit for something they didn't do, to win an argument, to look good.

Or maybe you're telling yourself, I never lie. Well you might

actually be lying to yourself. Just ask yourself this question. Do you ever

withhold the truth to misrepresent reality? Sure, maybe you never say falsehoods, but by

never saying what really happened, by not giving the whole truth about where you

really were, what you were really doing, well you can give people an impression that is false, intentionally,

which is a lie.

In Proverbs 1215 we read, The Way of the Fool seems right to them, but the

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