| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Micah 6: 6 'Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?
Micah 6: 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?'
Micah 6: 8 It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
Micah 6: 9 Hark! the LORD crieth unto the city--and it is wisdom to have regard for Thy name--hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
Micah 6: 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 6: 11 'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?'
Micah 6: 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Micah 6: 13 Therefore I also do smite thee with a grievous wound; I do make thee desolate because of thy sins.
Micah 6: 14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy sickness shall be in thine inward parts; and thou shalt conceive, but shalt not bring forth; and whomsoever thou bringest forth will I give up to the sword.
Micah 6: 15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink wine.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: different. I told you a while ago and repetition is useless and
painful. I need only add therefore that since then my conviction
has strengthened and I am sure, sorry as I am to say it, that in
this matter you must prepare for disappointment and calamity.
That woman, if woman she really is, will never be the wife of
mortal man. Now be angry with me if you like, or laugh as you
have the right to do, seeing that like Bastin and yourself, I
also asked her to marry me, but something makes me speak what I
believe to be the truth."
"Like Cassandra," I suggested.
"Yes, like Cassandra who was not a popular person." At first I
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: "Nobody else asked any except Ruby Gillis, and she asked if there
was to be a Sunday-school picnic this summer. I didn't think
that was a very proper question to ask because it hadn't any
connection with the lesson--the lesson was about Daniel in the
lions' den--but Mrs. Allan just smiled and said she thought there
would be. Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile; she has such EXQUISITE
dimples in her cheeks. I wish I had dimples in my cheeks, Marilla.
I'm not half so skinny as I was when I came here, but I have no
dimples yet. If I had perhaps I could influence people for good.
Mrs. Allan said we ought always to try to influence other people
for good. She talked so nice about everything. I never knew before
Anne of Green Gables |
