PROMISES THAT PRECEDE THE PROVERBS Some years ago, I was at a men’s retreat. The speaker issued a challenge to the group which he said would change our lives: Read one chapter of the book of Proverbs each day for a year. Since there are 31 chapters in Proverbs, reading a chapter a day would equal reading the whole book each month (reading two chapters on one day in the months with only 30 days). Reading the entire book of Proverbs twelve times in a year, he said, would change our lives. Well, I accepted