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The word “fool” has bounced around in my head a lot over the last few weeks. And that’s one of the reasons there has been a brief period of silence from my regular blogging schedule. Everytime I started to write, all my thoughts and sentiments felt foolish. Rather than forge ahead with my words, I spent more time reading Scripture and almost none writing. I read through Proverbs twice.

This blog series is dedicated to “A Season for Wisdom” but the last two weeks have left me contemplating the opposite – foolishness.

A fool is any person who acts unwisely, imprudently, or with the intent to trick or deceive someone. With several of our youth students, the ultimate insult is to accuse them of acting like a fool.

In the words of Dwight Schrute, the most inspiring thing Michael Scott ever said to him was, “Don’t be an idiot…Whenever I am about to do something, I think – would an idiot do that? – and if they would, I do not do that thing.”

I counted the word fool or foolishness 79 times in these 31 chapters. 27 of them come from chapters 14-17 alone. That’s 1/3 of the uses in only 3 chapters!

So we’re going to transition to a time in this series of asking ourselves the Dwight Schrute test question – would a fool do that? – if so, we are not going to do that thing.

But first, we will study the character traits of a fool. So make sure you’re signed up to have these blogs delivered to your inbox, it would be foolish not to!