| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Lamentations 3: 40 Let us search and try our ways, and return to the LORD.
Lamentations 3: 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3: 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations 3: 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
Lamentations 3: 44 Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Lamentations 3: 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3: 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lamentations 3: 47 Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3: 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3: 49 Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3: 50 Till the LORD look forth, and behold from heaven.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: possible--when there was nothing--no love?"
"How did I know there wasn't love?"
That silenced her for a moment. "And what on earth," he said,
"do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been
doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are
you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes
and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really
suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man
she meets without giving any return?"
"I thought," said Ann Veronica, "you were my friend."
"Friend! What have a man and a girl in common to make them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Then turning to where his men-at-arms stood near the door, he called,
"Come hither," and beckoned with his finger; whereupon the tallest
of them all came forward and handed him a long leathern bag.
Sir Richard took the bag and shot from it upon the table a glittering
stream of golden money. "Bear in mind, Sir Prior," said he,
"that thou hast promised me quittance for three hundred pounds.
Not one farthing above that shalt thou get." So saying, he counted
out three hundred pounds and pushed it toward the Prior.
But now the Prior's hands dropped at his sides and the Prior's
head hung upon his shoulder, for not only had he lost all hopes
of the land, but he had forgiven the Knight one hundred pounds
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