| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
TH1 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
direct our way unto you.
TH1 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
TH1 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness
before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with
all his saints.
TH1 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by
the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and
to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: overhear the following dialogue.
"Are you aware, Son of the Mist," said the Campbell, "that you
will never leave this place excepting for the gibbet?"
"Those who are dearest to me," answered MacEagh, "have trode that
path before me."
"Then you would do nothing," asked the visitor, "to shun
following them?"
The prisoner writhed himself in his chains before returning an
answer.
"I would do much," at length he said; "not for my own life, but
for the sake of the pledge in the glen of Strath-Aven."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: what she gave! What did she ever have of life? Nothing!
That little miserable, dirty store, and those little
miserable, dirty people. You give her a chance, d'You hear?
You give her a chance, God, or I'll----"
Her voice broke in a thin, cracked quaver. The nurse turned
her around, suddenly and sharply, and led her from the room.
CHAPTER EIGHT
"You can come down now. They're all here, I guess. Doctor
Thalmann's going to begin." Fanny, huddled in a chair in
her bedroom, looked up into the plump, kindly face of the
woman who was bending over her. Then she stood up,
Fanny Herself |
