| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: spoke -
'Welcome, fair youth, to these mountains; happy am I to have
met you! For what greater pleasure to a good man, than to
entertain strangers? But I see that you are weary. Come up
to my castle, and rest yourself awhile.'
'I give you thanks,' said Theseus: 'but I am in haste to go
up the valley, and to reach Aphidnai in the Vale of
Cephisus.'
'Alas! you have wandered far from the right way, and you
cannot reach Aphidnai to-night, for there are many miles of
mountain between you and it, and steep passes, and cliffs
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Nehemiah 2: 8 and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's park, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.' And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Nehemiah 2: 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
Nehemiah 2: 10 And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 2: 11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Nehemiah 2: 12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Nehemiah 2: 13 And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
Nehemiah 2: 14 Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool; but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: like to say anything to my parents about a very sweet subject?"
"No."
"About me, Peter?"
"No."
Mrs. Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping
a sharp eye on Wendy. She told Peter that she had adopted all
the other boys, and would like to adopt him also.
"Would you send me to school?" he inquired craftily.
"Yes."
"And then to an office?"
"I suppose so."
Peter Pan |
