| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: the silver wedding came round, and invented three different kinds
of dishcloths for the express service of the bridal china.
People who hire all these things done for them never know
what they lose, for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving
hands do them, and Meg found so many proofs of this that everything
in her small nest, from the kitchen roller to the silver vase on
her parlor table, was eloquent of home love and tender forethought.
What happy times they had planning together, what solemn
shopping excursions, what funny mistakes they made, and what
shouts of laughter arose over Laurie's ridiculous bargains. In
his love of jokes, this young gentleman, though nearly through
Little Women |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Leviticus 8: 28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and made them smoke on the altar upon the burnt-offering; they were a consecration-offering for a sweet savour; it was an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus 8: 29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-offering before the LORD; it was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8: 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
Leviticus 8: 31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons: 'Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting; and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
Leviticus 8: 32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus 8: 33 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled; for He shall consecrate you seven days.
Leviticus 8: 34 As hath been done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
Leviticus 8: 35 And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not; for so I am commanded.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: houses, heavily framed with oak, stood scattered in a long green
valley ascending from the river. At the foot, the road crossed a
bridge, and mounting on the other side, disappeared into the
fringes of the forest on its way to the Moat House, and further
forth to Holywood Abbey. Half-way up the village, the church stood
among yews. On every side the slopes were crowned and the view
bounded by the green elms and greening oak-trees of the forest.
Hard by the bridge, there was a stone cross upon a knoll, and here
the group had collected - half a dozen women and one tall fellow in
a russet smock - discussing what the bell betided. An express had
gone through the hamlet half an hour before, and drunk a pot of ale
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