| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: short, high, deep-chested, white-tusked hunters of the Pack,
but the anxious-eyed lahinis--the she-wolves of the lair, as the
saying is--fighting for their litters, with here and there a
yearling wolf, his first coat still half woolly, tugging and
grappling by their sides. A wolf, you must know, flies at the
throat or snaps at the flank, while a dhole, by preference,
bites at the belly; so when the dholes were struggling out of
the water and had to raise their heads, the odds were with the
wolves. On dry land the wolves suffered; but in the water or
ashore, Mowgli's knife came and went without ceasing. The Four
had worried their way to his side. Gray Brother, crouched
The Second Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: affliction and distress by your faith:
TH1 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
TH1 3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the
joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
TH1 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face,
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
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: wanton destruction threefold vengeance had been taken, as has
been stated. In this way outrages are frequently committed on the
natives by thoughtless or mischievous white men; the Indians
retaliate according to a law of their code, which requires blood
for blood; their act, of what with them is pious vengeance,
resounds throughout the land, and is represented as wanton and
unprovoked; the neighborhood is roused to arms; a war ensues,
which ends in the destruction of half the tribe, the ruin of the
rest, and their expulsion from their hereditary homes. Such is
too often the real history of Indian warfare, which in general is
traced up only to some vindictive act of a savage; while the
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