| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: evil, frustrate our will; in what of good, further our endeavours.
Cause injuries to be forgot and benefits to be remembered.
Let us lie down without fear and awake and arise with exultation.
For his sake, in whose words we now conclude.
IN TIME OF RAIN
WE thank Thee, Lord, for the glory of the late days and the
excellent face of thy sun. We thank Thee for good news received.
We thank Thee for the pleasures we have enjoyed and for those we
have been able to confer. And now, when the clouds gather and the
rain impends over the forest and our house, permit us not to be
cast down; let us not lose the savour of past mercies and past
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: going to let my imagination run riot for the summer. Oh, you
needn't be alarmed, Marilla. I'll only let it run riot within
reasonable limits. But I want to have a real good jolly time
this summer, for maybe it's the last summer I'll be a little
girl. Mrs. Lynde says that if I keep stretching out next year
as I've done this I'll have to put on longer skirts. She says
I'm all running to legs and eyes. And when I put on longer skirts
I shall feel that I have to live up to them and be very dignified.
It won't even do to believe in fairies then, I'm afraid; so I'm
going to believe in them with all my whole heart this summer.
I think we're going to have a very gay vacation. Ruby Gillis
Anne of Green Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: this afternoon," she explained.
An oath ripped from Sylvester. "I mistook you for your sister,"
he snarled. "Had I known it was you, I'd have wrung the securities
from you."
Helen stared at his suddenly contorted face. "Ah, you are the man
who looked in at the window of the reception room yesterday morning
when I was talking to Mr. Kent," she cried. "I recognize you now."
He continued to glare at her. "I also sent you a note by your
sister outside the Caf St. Marks to secrete the letter 'B'," his
voice rose almost into a shout in his ungovernable rage. "I heard
Turnbull tell you to take the envelope to Rochester, and I banked
The Red Seal |
