Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 7 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today Rachel and I are going to be talking

all things fool, all things foolish, all things about fools. And we're going to be talking about what a

fool is, how the Bible defines a fool, and how we can discern whether someone is just behaving foolishly or whether they are actually a true bona fide fool.

And we'll also be able to talk about and discern whether or not we are fools, and Rachel's going to talk a little bit more about

about that.

And a minute, so I just want to start, first of all hi Rachel hi Natalie first of all I want to just

start off by saying that telling a little bit a little story because I think it'll just set this whole conversation up.

I was in a destructive marriage for 25 years and I remember about and I you know I knew right from the

beginning that we had a problem the main problem was that no matter what

happened in my relationship my ex-husband was not, he was not able to ever admit that he was

wrong about anything.

And so, you know, so we never could resolve any conflicts

unless I said that I was the one to blame

and took the blame and said I was sorry

and asked for forgiveness.

And so that kind of cycle just was going on and on for many, many years.

And I remember one day about, you know, probably, I don't know, 18 years into it, when I was sitting in a wooden rocking chair in my

bedroom and I was reading through my Bible and I came to the book of Proverbs.

So I had this habit of reading through my Bible every year

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