| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: a little longer, all was perfectly still; I listened more than an
hour--at last I heard M. Pelet come in and ascend to his chamber.
Glancing once more towards the long front of the garden-house, I
perceived that its solitary light was at length extinguished; so,
for a time, was my faith is love and friendship. I went to bed,
but something feverish and fiery had got into my veins which
prevented me from sleeping much that night.
CHAPTER XIII.
NEXT morning I rose with the dawn, and having dressed myself and
stood half-an-hour, my elbow leaning on the chest of drawers,
considering what means I should adopt to restore my spirits,
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: PSA 47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
feet.
PSA 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of
Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
PSA 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
trumpet.
PSA 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
sing praises.
PSA 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
understanding.
PSA 47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: From near the village of Harmony, at the foot
of the Green Mountains, came Miss Medora Martin
to New York with her color-box and easel.
Miss Medora resembled the rose which the autum-
nal frosts had spared the longest of all her sister
blossoms. In Harmony, when she started alone to
the wicked city to study art, they said she was a mad,
reckless, headstrong girl. In New York, when she
first took her seat at a West Side boardinghouse
table, the boarders asked: "Who is the nice-looking
old maid?"
The Voice of the City |
