| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 18: 42 (18:43) Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Psalms 18: 43 (18:44) Thou hast delivered me from the contentions of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations; a people whom I have not known serve me.
Psalms 18: 44 (18:45) As soon as they hear of me, they obey me; the sons of the stranger dwindle away before me.
Psalms 18: 45 (18:46) The sons of the stranger fade away, and come trembling out of their close places.
Psalms 18: 46 (18:47) The LORD liveth, and blessed be my Rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation;
Psalms 18: 47 (18:48) Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, and subdueth peoples under me.
Psalms 18: 48 (18:49) He delivereth me from mine enemies; yea, Thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
Psalms 18: 49 (18:50) Therefore I will give thanks unto Thee, O LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises unto Thy name.
Psalms 18: 50 (18:51) Great salvation giveth He to His king; and showeth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.
Psalms 19: 1 (19:1) For the Leader. A Psalm of David. (19:2) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork;
Psalms 19: 2 (19:3) Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night revealeth knowledge;
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: wished to get ahead of the Tartar columns. It was evident
that the unlucky chance which had brought him into the
presence of his mother had betrayed his incognito. Ivan
Ogareff was no longer ignorant of the fact that a courier of
the Czar had just passed Omsk, taking the direction of
Irkutsk. The dispatches which this courier bore must have
been of immense importance. Michael Strogoff knew,
therefore, that every effort would be made to capture him.
But what he did not know, and could not know, was
that Marfa Strogoff was in the hands of Ivan Ogareff, and
that she was about to atone, perhaps with her life, for that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: In homely ways or by lost trails,
By all light shed through all dark years
When hope grows sick and courage quails,
We hail him first among his peers;
Whether we sorrow, sing, or feast,
He, too, hath known and understood--
Master of many moods, high priest
Of mirth and lord of cleansing tears!
A POLITICIAN
LEADER no more, be judged of us!
Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore--
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