| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 23: 9 (23:10) When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.
Deuteronomy 23: 10 (23:11) If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp.
Deuteronomy 23: 11 (23:12) But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.
Deuteronomy 23: 12 (23:13) Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad.
Deuteronomy 23: 13 (23:14) And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee.
Deuteronomy 23: 14 (23:15) For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy; that He see no unseemly thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
Deuteronomy 23: 15 (23:16) Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is escaped from his master unto thee;
Deuteronomy 23: 16 (23:17) he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: depend on it, there was a good reason for it all. And I wish you
wouldn't be so suspicious of motives, Rich," I said warmly.
"Only yesterday you were the suspicious one," he retorted, and we
lapsed into strained silence.
It was late when we got to Washington. One of Mrs. Klopton's small
tyrannies was exacting punctuality at meals, and, like several other
things, I respected it. There are always some concessions that
should be made in return for faithful service.
So, as my dinner hour of seven was long past, McKnight and I went
to a little restaurant down town where they have a very decent way
of fixing chicken a la King. Hotchkiss had departed, economically
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: That sets him high in fame.
[Enter BERTRAM.]
LAFEU.
He looks well on 't.
KING.
I am not a day of season,
For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
In me at once: but to the brightest beams
Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;
The time is fair again.
BERTRAM.
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