| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: The lamps now glitter down the street;
Faintly sound the falling feet;
And the blue even slowly falls
About the garden trees and walls.
Now in the falling of the gloom
The red fire paints the empty room:
And warmly on the roof it looks,
And flickers on the back of books.
Armies march by tower and spire
Of cities blazing, in the fire;--
Till as I gaze with staring eyes,
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 31: 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness is on her tongue.
Proverbs 31: 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Proverbs 31: 28 Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her:
Proverbs 31: 29 'Many daughters have done valiantly, but thou excellest them all.'
Proverbs 31: 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Proverbs 31: 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in the gates.
Ruth 1: 1 AND IT came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem in Judah went to sojourn in the field of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth 1: 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem in Judah. And they came into the field of Moab, and continued there.
Ruth 1: 3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: live for ever, after which I had a quick passage home, for the
gods sent me a fair wind.
"And now for yourself--stay here some ten or twelve days longer,
and I will then speed you on your way. I will make you a noble
present of a chariot and three horses. I will also give you a
beautiful chalice that so long as you live you may think of me
whenever you make a drink-offering to the immortal gods."
"Son of Atreus," replied Telemachus, "do not press me to stay
longer; I should be contented to remain with you for another
twelve months; I find your conversation so delightful that I
should never once wish myself at home with my parents; but my
The Odyssey |
