| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: not understand them, and harboured fear of them. They said, 'Fear not.
Verily, we are sent unto the people of Lot.' And his wife was standing
by, laughing; and we gave her the glad tidings of Isaac, and of
Jacob after Isaac. Said she, 'Alas for me! shall I bear a son when I
am an old woman, and this husband of mine an old man? Verily, this
is a wonderful thing!' They said,' Dost thou wonder at the bidding
of God? God's mercy and blessings upon you, ye people of the house!
Verily, He is to be praised and glorified.'
And when his terror left Abraham, and the glad tidings came to
him, he wrangled with us about the people of Lot; verily, Abraham
was clement, pitiful, relenting.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: and for what you talk o' your folks in your old country niver saying
prayers by heart nor saying 'em out of a book, they must be
wonderful cliver; for if I didn't know "Our Father", and little bits
o' good words as I can carry out o' church wi' me, I might down o'
my knees every night, but nothing could I say."
"But you can mostly say something as I can make sense on,
Mrs. Winthrop," said Silas.
"Well, then, Master Marner, it come to me summat like this: I can
make nothing o' the drawing o' lots and the answer coming wrong; it
'ud mayhap take the parson to tell that, and he could only tell us
i' big words. But what come to me as clear as the daylight, it was
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: computers we used then didn't have lower case at all.
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The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620 [This was November 21, old style calendar]
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