| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: gazed out above and beyond them. It was in this way that he
chanced to see a number of women on the outskirts of the crowd.
Some were old, with hard faces, like the men. Some were young
and comely, and most of these seemed agitated by excitement or
distress. They cast fearful, pitying glances upon Duane as he
stood there with that noose round his neck. Women were more
human than men, Duane thought. He met eyes that dilated, seemed
fascinated at his gaze, but were not averted. It was the old
women who were voluble, loud in expression of their feelings.
Near the trunk of the cottonwood stood a slender woman in
white. Duane's wandering glance rested upon her. Her eyes were
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezra 3: 5 and afterward the continual burnt-offering, and the offerings of the new moons, and of all the appointed seasons of the LORD that were hallowed, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill-offering unto the LORD.
Ezra 3: 6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD; but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
Ezra 3: 7 They gave money also unto the hewers, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
Ezra 3: 8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of the LORD.
Ezra 3: 9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God; the sons of Henadad also, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
Ezra 3: 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LOR 
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: and comfort, and a pleasant home, and all that money can
give, to face hunger and thirst, and wounds and death, that
they might fight for their country and their Queen? No,
children, there is a better thing on earth than wealth, a
better thing than life itself; and that is, to have done
something before you die, for which good men may honour you,
and God your Father smile upon your work.
Therefore we will believe - why should we not? - of these
same Argonauts of old, that they too were noble men, who
planned and did a noble deed; and that therefore their fame
has lived, and been told in story and in song, mixed up, no
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