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In our current series here on Brightheart, we're engaging in a bit of satire.

The series is titled How to Ruin Your Life, a Woman's Guide to Home Demolition,

and it's all about providing you with a roadmap to destroy your own household.

Inspired by Proverbs 141, of course, the wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

In the series, we're naming those ways that a wife can quietly tear her own household down over her head, one small, unrepented act of folly or sin at a time.

And those little unrepented sins can feel harmless in the moment

until they bring the whole house crashing down. We obviously don't want you to follow these

rules, but rather to be able to see them, name them, and put them to death in your own home.

And not just that, but to put on the virtues that will displace them, virtues that will

build your house rather than break

your house. This episode is the fourth installment of the series, and we're taking up one of the

ways that you can wreck your own household while actually receiving quite a few compliments and

accolades along the way. The rule is simple. Try to be everything and do everything. Here's how it plays out in the life of a wife and a mother.

You cram every nook and cranny of your calendar full, every community event, every hobby, every coffee date, every extracurricular for the kids.

You're everyone's friend, everyone's helper, everyone's go-to volunteer. You want to be seen as the woman

who does it all, the one who never says no, the supermom who's always doing more than everybody

else. But in that quiet reality of your own home, in the walls of your actual central duties,

those core duties that God has actually assigned you start to

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