| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: She expected to see a familiar, dignified person, a quiet,
unruffled figure, a tranquil face with dark, proud eyes and calm,
proud lips. No, she did not see Madeline Hammond. She did not
see any one she knew. Were her eyes, like her heart, playing her
false? The figure before her was instinct with pulsating life.
The hands she saw, clasped together, pressed deep into a swelling
bosom that heaved with each panting breath. The face she saw--
white, rapt, strangely glowing, with parted, quivering lips, with
great, staring, tragic eyes--this could not be Madeline Hammond's
face.
Yet as she looked she knew no fancy could really deceive her,
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: gift of grace from above, he kept his mind's eye purified from
every earth-born cloud, and looked forward to the things that are
to come, as though they were already come. Christ was his
recompense for all: Christ was his desire: Christ he ever saw as
present with him: Christ and his fair beauty everywhere met his
sight, according to the saying of the prophet, "I have set God
always before me; for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall
not fall." And again, "My soul cleaveth to thee; thy right hand
hath upholden me." For verily Ioasaph's soul clave to Christ,
being knit to him in indissoluble union. From this marvellous
work he never swerved, never altered the rule of his ascetic
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "She supposed that her own family had enough
faith in her to take it for granted," says the doctor,
very scornful, his face getting red.
"But wait, Dave," says Colonel Tom, quiet and
cool. "Don't bluster with me. There are still a
lot of things to be explained. And that marriage
is one of them.
"To go back a bit. You say you got to the house
somewhere around ten o'clock that evening and
found Lucy gone. Do you remember the day of
the month?"
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