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In our new series here on Brightheart, we're naming the subtle, respectable, everyday ways

that a wife can quietly tear her own household down, one small, unrepented act of folly at a time.

Those little sins that feel harmless until they start to actually bring your whole

house down over your head. The series is titled, How to Ruin Your Life, a Woman's Guide to Home

Demolition, and it's really all orbiting around one passage of scripture, Proverbs 14.1. The wisest of

women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Each episode, then, is an act of satire.

We don't actually want you to follow these rules, but rather to be able to see them, to name them, and put them to death in your own home.

And not just that, but to build the virtues that will displace them, virtues that will build rather than

break your home. So here in the third installment of the series, we come to one of the most

subtle and really easily missed of these home wrecking sins. If you want to tear your house down

over your head, here's one way to do it. Never look in the mirror. Here's how it plays out

in the life of a wife and a mother. You simply assume that your self-perception is always accurate.

You never pause to look honestly at your own character, gifts, maturity, or your vices,

sins, and weaknesses. Instead, you quietly place yourself at the top of every hierarchy you encounter.

You may not even know you're doing it. You assume that you're probably the most mature, most knowledgeable,

wisest, the most virtuous woman in any room you walk into. You don't invite older, more seasoned

Christian women to speak into your life, you don't imitate those who are

clearly further along the path of godliness than you are, after all, who could be. And when

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