| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
JDG 5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered
themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
JDG 5:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment,
and walk by the way.
JDG 5:11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the
places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of
the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages
in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
JDG 5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise,
Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: such that he did not weaken. He was overjoyed to see that George rallied, and
showed no further indications of breaking down.
True it was, perhaps, that Heckewelder's earnest prayer on behalf of the
converted Indians had sunk deeply into George's heart and thus kept it from
breaking. No stronger plea could have been made than the allusion to those
gentle, dependent Christians. No one but a missionary could realize the
sweetness, the simplicity, the faith, the eager hope for a good, true life
which had been implanted in the hearts of these Indians. To bear it in mind,
to think of what he, as a missionary and teacher, was to them, relieved him of
half his burden, and for strength to bear the remainder he went to God. For
all worry there is a sovereign cure, for all suffering there is a healing
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: Pharaohs, is admirable. What a medley of voices and of unchained
furies!
"No grander subject was ever wrought out by a composer. The famous
/finale/ of /Don Giovanni/, after all, only shows us a libertine at
odds with his victims, who invoke the vengeance of Heaven; while here
earth and its dominions try to defeat God. Two nations are here face
to face. And Rossini, having every means at his command, has made
wonderful use of them. He has succeeded in expressing the turmoil of a
tremendous storm as a background to the most terrible imprecations,
without making it ridiculous. He has achieved it by the use of chords
repeated in triple time--a monotonous rhythm of gloomy musical
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