| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: She observed that some were very shabby. She took the photograph
of her father and mother, and, before she laid it away in her box,
she held it for a minute in her hand. Rachel had looked at it.
Suddenly the keen feeling of some one's personality, which things that
they have owned or handled sometimes preserves, overcame her; she felt
Rachel in the room with her; it was as if she were on a ship at sea,
and the life of the day was as unreal as the land in the distance.
But by degrees the feeling of Rachel's presence passed away,
and she could no longer realise her, for she had scarcely known her.
But this momentary sensation left her depressed and fatigued.
What had she done with her life? What future was there before her?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: scholastics caricature Christ into a judge and tormentor. But Christ is no law
giver. He is the Lifegiver. He is the Forgiver of sins. You must believe that
Christ might have atoned for the sins of the world with one single drop of His
blood. Instead, He shed His blood abundantly in order that He might give
abundant satisfaction for our sins.
Here let me say, that these three things, faith, Christ, and imputation of
righteousness, are to be joined together. Faith takes hold of Christ. God
accounts this faith for righteousness.
This imputation of righteousness we need very much, because we are far
from perfect. As long as we have this body, sin will dwell in our flesh. Then,
too, we sometimes drive away the Holy Spirit; we fall into sin, like Peter,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: paces of her and then said, "Dinah!" She started without looking
round, as if she connected the sound with no place. "Dinah!" Adam
said again. He knew quite well what was in her mind. She was so
accustomed to think of impressions as purely spiritual monitions
that she looked for no material visible accompaniment of the
voice.
But this second time she looked round. What a look of yearning
love it was that the mild grey eyes turned on the strong dark-eyed
man! She did not start again at the sight of him; she said
nothing, but moved towards him so that his arm could clasp her
round.
Adam Bede |
