Read every day looking for Head, Heart and Huh? moments.
Head – look for the Proverbs you have seen play out in life as true.
Heart – look for the Proverbs that have deeply worked something in your heart beyond a head kind of observation. Words that have specifically come ALIVE in your spirit!
Huh??? Look for segments that make you scratch your head and think “Huh?! What’s that mean? I’ve never noticed that! That makes no sense to me!”
Hint 1
You don’t have to mark up every verse. Just be on the lookout for the ones that create a response in you as you read. This is greatly helped by reading slowly- even aloud as you might to a child – to help yourself hear with different ears.
Hint 2
The focus lens is meant to help you read differently and let familiar words go to new places. If you’re thinking more about how to use the focus prompt more than the Scripture itself then it’s a distraction rather than a help. Perhaps read the chapter once just with the prompt in the back of your mind and just let the three things tweak you gently.
- Head truth.
- Heart truth.
- “Huh?” moments
Last – find someone every day to discuss at least one thing your Proverbs reading has shown you that day because our learning goes deeper with hearing, reading, thinking, speaking and action. Having an actual conversation draws from and employs all those processes 