| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 27: 22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I remember them, saith the LORD, and bring them up, and restore them to this place.'
Jeremiah 28: 1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying:
Jeremiah 28: 2 'Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 28: 3 Within two full years will I bring back into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon;
Jeremiah 28: 4 and I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went to Babylon, saith the LORD; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'
Jeremiah 28: 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,
Jeremiah 28: 6 even the prophet Jeremiah said: 'Amen! the LORD do so! the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all them that are carried away captive, from Babylon unto this place!
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: thus forsaken his former disgraceful life, and repented of his
evil deeds, handed over to his son the rule of all his kingdom.
He himself dwelt in solitude, continually casting dust on his
head, and groaning for very heaviness, and watering his face with
his tears, being alone, communing with him who is everywhere
present and imploring him to forgive his sins. And he abased
himself to such a depth of contrition and humility, that he
refused to name the name of God with his own lips, and was scarce
brought by his son's admonitions to make so bold. Thus the king
passed through the good change and entered the road that leadeth
to virtue, so that his righteousness now surpassed his former
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: reaped from it credit with his countrymen and dislike from the
Germans.
I may not say that trouble was hoped. I must say - if it were not
feared, the practice of diplomacy must teach a very hopeful view of
human nature. Mataafa and Laupepa, by the sudden repatriation of
the last, found themselves face to face in conditions of
exasperating rivalry. The one returned from the dead of exile to
find himself replaced and excelled. The other, at the end of a
long, anxious, and successful struggle, beheld his only possible
competitor resuscitated from the grave. The qualities of both, in
this difficult moment, shone out nobly. I feel I seem always less
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