2022 August Focus

Proverbs often refers to people in generic descriptive ways like ‘fool’, ‘simple ones’ or ‘the righteous’ but it also refers to people more specifically as ‘man’, ‘woman’, ‘king’, ‘son’, ‘father’, ‘mother’.

This month, notice and consider each of the specific addresses and whether or not it’s truly only considered to be specifically and only for application in the role addressed or if it’s a generality or example, for emphasis or simplicity of expression- or something wider, broader, more encompassing – exclusive to the role mentioned or not