| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 12: 9 Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job 12: 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.--
Job 12: 11 Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?
Job 12: 12 Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days?--
Job 12: 13 With Him is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
Job 12: 14 Behold, He breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job 12: 15 Behold, He withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also He sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Job 12: 16 With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.
Job 12: 17 He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools.
Job 12: 18 He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.
Job 12: 19 He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Margret Howth: A Story of To-day by Rebecca Harding Davis: There was a turn in the path at the top of the hill, a sunken
wall, with a broad stone from which the wind had blown the snow.
This was the place. He sat down on the stone, resting. Just
there she had stood, clutching her little fingers behind her,
when he came up and threw back her hood to look in her face: how
pale and worn it was, even then! He had not looked at her
to-night: he would not, if he had been dying, with those men
standing there. He stood alone in the world with this little
Margret. How those men had carped, and criticised her, chattered
of the duties of her soul! Why, it was his, it was his own,
softer and fresher. There was not a glance with which they
Margret Howth: A Story of To-day |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: Fishwives and market women might show similar strength, but it was coarse
and heavy. These were merely athletic--light and powerful. College
professors, teachers, writers--many women showed similar intelligence but
often wore a strained nervous look, while these were as calm as cows,
for all their evident intellect.
We observed pretty closely just then, for all of us felt that it
was a crucial moment.
The leader gave some word of command and beckoned us on,
and the surrounding mass moved a step nearer.
"We've got to decide quick," said Terry.
"I vote to go in," Jeff urged. But we were two to one against
Herland |
