| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Chronicles 31: 19 also for the sons of Aaron the priests, that were in the fields of the open land about their cities, in every city, there were men that were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
2_Chronicles 31: 20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and he wrought that which was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.
2_Chronicles 31: 21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
2_Chronicles 32: 1 After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to make a breach therein for himself.
2_Chronicles 32: 2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
2_Chronicles 32: 3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him.
2_Chronicles 32: 4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying: 'Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?'
2_Chronicles 32: 5 And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and mad 
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The next morning Tarzan rode north on his way to Bouira
and Algiers. As he had ridden past the hotel Lieutenant
Gernois was standing on the veranda. As his eyes discovered
Tarzan he went white as chalk. The ape-man would have been
glad had the meeting not occurred, but he could not avoid it.
He saluted the officer as he rode past. Mechanically Gernois
returned the salute, but those terrible, wide eyes followed
the horseman, expressionless except for horror. It was as
though a dead man looked upon a ghost.
At Sidi Aissa Tarzan met a French officer with whom he
had become acquainted on the occasion of his recent
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: other's change of manner.
"If you had not chanced to drop in here today," said Loge, "I had
intended paying you a visit."
"I have had several visitors lately," said Cleggett nonchalantly,
"and I think at least two of them can make no claim that they
were not warmly received."
"Yes?" said Loge. But if Cleggett's meaning reached him he was
too cool a hand to show it. He persisted in his affectation of a
businesslike air. "Am I right in thinking that you have bought
the boat?"
"You are."
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