The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: safe within his thorny enclosure, Mugambi was wont to
stretch himself in the shade of his shelter during the
heat of the day, and sleep in peaceful security until
the declining sun carried with it the enervating
temperature of midday.
Watching from above, Chulk saw the black warrior
stretched thus in the unconsciousness of sleep one
sultry afternoon. Creeping out upon an overhanging
branch the anthropoid dropped to the ground within the
boma. He approached the sleeper upon padded feet which
gave forth no sound, and with an uncanny woodcraft that
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: thou hast delivered thy soul.
EZE 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall
die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin,
and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but
his blood will I require at thine hand.
EZE 3:21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the
righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he
is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
EZE 3:22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto
me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: and tipped her glowing face up to the light. "I am not so
sure now that it will work. As for its being fair! Why,
no! No!"
Fanny waited for her mother that evening, and they walked
home together. Their step and swing were very much alike,
now that Fanny's legs were growing longer. She was at the
backfisch age.
"What did he mean, Mother, when he said that about Theodore
being a great violinist, and its not being fair? What isn't
fair? And how did he happen to be in the store, anyway? He
bought a heap of toys, didn't he? I suppose he's awfully
Fanny Herself |