| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 8: 13 And Hazael said: 'But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?' And Elisha answered: 'The LORD hath shown me that thou shalt be king over Aram.'
2_Kings 8: 14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him: 'What said Elisha to thee?' And he answered: 'He told me that thou wouldest surely recover.'
2_Kings 8: 15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his stead.
2_Kings 8: 16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
2_Kings 8: 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2_Kings 8: 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2_Kings 8: 19 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David His servant's sake, as He promised him to give unto him a lamp and to his children alway.
2_Kings 8: 20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2_Kings 8: 21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
2_Kings 8: 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, unto this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: reason why we should forget one another. But I must
leave you; my time of engagement approaches.
CHARLOTTE
Well, but, brother, if you will go, will you please
to conduct my fair friend home? You live in the
same street--I was to have gone with her myself--
[Aside]. A lucky thought.
MARIA
I am obliged to your sister, Sir, and was just intend-
ping to go. [Going.]
MANLY
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: themselves. Imlac was forced to observe them with great vigilance,
lest they should betray their rank by their unusual behaviour, and
detained them several weeks in the first village to accustom them
to the sight of common mortals.
By degrees the royal wanderers were taught to understand that they
had for a time laid aside their dignity, and were to expect only
such regard as liberality and courtesy could procure. And Imlac
having by many admonitions prepared them to endure the tumults of a
port and the ruggedness of the commercial race, brought them down
to the sea-coast.
The Prince and his sister, to whom everything was new, were
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