| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: sermon for a Sabbath in the wilderness than Mrs. Slosson's immortal
story of Fishin' Jimmy?
But to be very frank about the matter, the camp is not stimulating
to the studious side of my mind. Charles Lamb, as usual, has said
what I feel: "I am not much a friend to out-of-doors reading. I
cannot settle my spirits to it."
There are blueberries growing abundantly among the rocks--huge
clusters of them, bloomy and luscious as the grapes of Eshcol. The
blueberry is nature's compensation for the ruin of forest fires.
It grows best where the woods have been burned away and the soil is
too poor to raise another crop of trees. Surely it is an innocent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Judges 14: 6 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as one would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges 14: 7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
Judges 14: 8 And after a while he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Judges 14: 9 And he scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went, and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat; but he told them not that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.
Judges 14: 10 And his father went down unto the woman; and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Judges 14: 11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Judges 14: 12 And Samson said unto them: 'Let me now put forth a riddle unto you; if ye can declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment;
Judges 14: 13 but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: was prepared?' cried Herrick. 'The servants were both armed.
He was armed himself; he always is; he told me. You will never
deceive his vigilance. Davis, I know it! It's all up; all up.
There's nothing for it, there's nothing to be done: all gone:
life, honour, love. Oh, my God, my God, why was I born?'
Another pause followed upon this outburst.
The captain put his hands to his brow,
'Another thing!' he broke out. 'Why did he tell you all this?
Seems like madness to me!'
Herrick shook his head with gloomy iteration. 'You wouldn't
understand if I were to tell you,' said he.
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