| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall
take my offering.
EXO 25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold,
and silver, and brass,
EXO 25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
hair,
EXO 25:5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
wood,
EXO 25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet
incense,
EXO 25:7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: Worm's display that night. Personally, I think it was in bad taste.
Besides being dangerous. There is no sort of use in playing with
fire, even for fun.
The "Shikarris" made him President of the Regimental Dramatic Club;
and, when the Senior Subaltern paid up his debt, which he did at
once, The Worm sank the money in scenery and dresses. He was a good
Worm; and the "Shikarris" are proud of him. The only drawback is
that he has been christened "Mrs. Senior Subaltern;" and as there
are now two Mrs. Senior Subalterns in the Station, this is sometimes
confusing to strangers.
Later on, I will tell you of a case something like, this, but with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: horse's shoes, turned down the trail up which he had come.
Even then he was slow to read into the incident anything that
related to himself or to his errand. He went over the various
contingencies of the trail: a ranger, on his way to town; a forest
fire somewhere; a belated hound from the newspaper pack. He was
convinced now that human eyes had watched him for some time through
the log wall the night before, but he could not connect them with
the business in hand.
He set resolutely about his business, which was to turn up, somehow,
some way, a proof of the truth of Maggie Donaldson's dying statement.
To begin with then he accepted that statement, to find where it would
The Breaking Point |
