| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: Pardon, who lived nearly a mile farther down the brook. Jacob had
won her good-will by some neighborly services, something so
trifling, indeed, that the thought of a favor conferred never
entered his mind. Ann Pardon saw that it did not; she detected a
streak of most unconscious goodness under his uncouth, embarrassed
ways, and she determined to cultivate it. No little tact was
required, however, to coax the wild, forlorn creature into so much
confidence as she desired to establish; but tact is a native
quality of the heart no less than a social acquirement, and so she
did the very thing necessary without thinking much about it.
Robert Pardon discovered by and by that Jacob was a steady,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: AND GO OUT BEFORE US, AND FIGHT OUR BATTLES.
Samuel continued to reason with them, but to no purpose; he set before
them their ingratitude, but all would not avail; and seeing them fully
bent on their folly, he cried out, I WILL CALL UNTO THE LORD,
AND HE SHALL SEND THUNDER AND RAIN (which then was a punishment,
being in the time of wheat harvest) THAT YE MAY PERCEIVE AND SEE
THAT YOUR WICKEDNESS IS GREAT WHICH YE HAVE DONE IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,
AND THE LORD SENT THUNDER AND RAIN THAT DAY, AND ALL THE PEOPLE GREATLY
FEARED THE LORD AND SAMUEL. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAMUEL,
PRAY FOR THY SERVANTS UNTO THE LORD THY GOD THAT WE DIE NOT,
FOR _WE HAVE ADDED UNTO OUR SINS THIS EVIL, TO ASK A KING._
Common Sense |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father.' Thus spake he
and added this thereto, `Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.'
"In such words and many more did the Lord make manifest the
resurrection of our bodies, and confirm his words in deed, by
raising many that were dead. And, toward the end of his life
upon earth, he called from the grave one Lazarus his friend, that
had already been four days dead and stank, and thus he restored
the lifeless to life. Moreover, the Lord himself became the
first-fruits of that resurrection which is final and no longer
subject unto death, after he had in the flesh tasted of death;
and on the third day he rose again, and became the first-born
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