| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: was exasperating. He had not finished, either. He
continued in a more agitated voice: --
"My opinion is (since you ask it) that you are
greatly to blame for playing pranks upon a man like
Mr. Boldwood, merely as a pastime. Leading on a
man you don't care for is not a praiseworthy action.
And even, Miss Everdene, if you seriously inclined
towards him, you might have let him find it out in
some way of true loving-kindness, and not by sending
him a valentine's letter."
Bathsheba laid down the shears.
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 27: 11 Teach me Thy way, O LORD; and lead me in an even path, because of them that lie in wait for me.
Psalms 27: 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
Psalms 27: 13 If I had not believed to look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!--
Psalms 27: 14 Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the LORD.
Psalms 28: 1 A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do I call; my Rock, be not Thou deaf unto me; lest, if Thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 28: 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward Thy holy Sanctuary.
Psalms 28: 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; who speak peace with their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
Psalms 28: 4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the evil of their endeavours; give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Psalms 28: 5 Because they give no heed to the works of the LORD, nor to the operation of His hands; He will break them down and not build them up.
Psalms 28: 6 Blessed be the LORD, because He hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Psalms 28: 7 The LORD is my strength and my shield, in Him hath my heart trusted, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my song will I praise Him.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so
that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him,
and they took the city.
JOS 6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man
and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of
the sword.
JOS 6:22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the
country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and
all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
JOS 6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out
Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that
King James Bible |
