| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Samuel 11: 3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: 'Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?'
2_Samuel 11: 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house.
2_Samuel 11: 5 And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said: 'I am with child.'
2_Samuel 11: 6 And David sent to Joab ,saying: 'Send me Uriah the Hittite.' And Joab sent Uriah to David.
2_Samuel 11: 7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
2_Samuel 11: 8 And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.
2_Samuel 11: 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
2_Samuel 11: 10 And when they had told David, saying: 'Uriah went not down unto his house', David said unto Uriah: 'Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?'
2_Samuel 11: 11 And Uriah said unto David: 'The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.'
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: "It looks uncommonly like a trap," he said. "I tell you there was
some one in the park below when we were coming up. Man has a sixth
sense that scientists ignore - a sense of the nearness of things.
And all the time you have been gone, some one has been watching me."
"Couldn't see you," I maintained; "I can't see you now. And your
sense of contiguity didn't tell you about that flower crock."
In the end, of course, he consented to go with me. He was very
lame, and I helped him around to the open window. He was full of
moral courage, the little man: it was only the physical in him that
quailed. And as we groped along, he insisted on going through the
window first.
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: as ever. During that time, except for some incidental exchanges
at his clubs, he talked to no one. At first he did not want to
talk to any one. He remained mentally and practically active,
with a still intensely vivid sense that God, the true God, stood
watching him and waiting for him to follow. And to follow meant
slipping right out of all the world he had ever known. To thrust
his foot right over the edge of a cliff would scarcely have
demanded more from the bishop's store of resolution. He stood on
the very verge. The chief secretion of his mind was a shadowy
experiment or so in explanation of why he did not follow.
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