| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin" (Rom. vii. 22, 23), and again, "I keep under
my body, and bring it unto subjection, lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway" (1
Cor. ix. 27), and "They that are Christ's have crucified the
flesh, with the affections and lusts" (Gal. v. 24).
These works, however, must not be done with any notion that by
them a man can be justified before God—for faith, which alone is
righteousness before God, will not bear with this false
notion--but solely with this purpose: that the body may be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: That high All-Seer which I dallied with
Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
Thus doth He force the swords of wicked men
To turn their own points in their masters' bosoms.
Thus Margaret's curse falls heavy on my neck.
'When he' quoth she 'shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'
Come lead me, officers, to the block of shame;
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
Exeunt
Richard III |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: forward through the gap in the vines, and I seen
the face real plain. It wasn't no ghost, it was a
lady. Then I knowed it must be Miss Hampton
standing there. Away off through the trees our
camp fire sent up jest a dull kind of a glow. She
was standing there looking at that. I wondered
why.
CHAPTER VIII
The next day we broke camp and was gone
from that place, and I took away with
me the half of a ring me and Martha had
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