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: To warm my frozen bones a bit;
Or with a reindeer-sled, explore
The colder countries round the door.
When to go out, my nurse doth wrap
Me in my comforter and cap;
The cold wind burns my face, and blows
Its frosty pepper up my nose.
Black are my steps on silver sod;
Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;
And tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like a wedding cake.
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: the snow ... in a degree of cold which would extinguish the life of
one exposed to it in any woollen clothing." He had seen them asleep
thus. Yet he adds, "They are not hardier than other people." But,
probably, man did not live long on the earth without discovering the
convenience which there is in a house, the domestic comforts, which
phrase may have originally signified the satisfactions of the house
more than of the family; though these must be extremely partial and
occasional in those climates where the house is associated in our
thoughts with winter or the rainy season chiefly, and two thirds of
the year, except for a parasol, is unnecessary. In our climate, in
the summer, it was formerly almost solely a covering at night. In
Walden |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: elements of the world:
GAL 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
GAL 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of sons.
GAL 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
GAL 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son,
then an heir of God through Christ.
GAL 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them
which by nature are no gods.
King James Bible |