| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Since the summer before we'd had to break Mr. Dick's coming to
Mrs. Wiggins the housekeeper, owing to his finding her false
front where it had blown out of a window, having been hung up to
dry, and his wearing it to luncheon as whiskers. Mr. Dick was
the old doctor's grandson.
"Humph!" I said, and he turned around and looked square at me.
"He's a good boy at heart, Minnie," he said. "We've had our
troubles with him, you and I, but everything has been quiet
lately."
When I didn't say anything he looked discouraged, but he had a
fine way of keeping on until he gained his point, had the old
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 33: 2 Thus saith the LORD the Maker thereof, the LORD that formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name:
Jeremiah 33: 3 Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and will tell thee great things, and hidden, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah 33: 4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down for mounds, and for ramparts;
Jeremiah 33: 5 whereon they come to fight with the Chaldeans, even to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in Mine anger and in My fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid My face from this city:
Jeremiah 33: 6 Behold, I will bring it healing and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Jeremiah 33: 7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Jeremiah 33: 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against Me, and whereby they have transgressed against Me.
Jeremiah 33: 9 And this city shall be to Me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: and upholstery, Mrs. Cedarquist exclaimed:
"And I've never told you who you were to dine with; oh, a
personage, really. Fancy, you will be in the camp of your
dearest foes. You are to dine with the Gerard people, one of the
Vice-Presidents of your bete noir, the P. and S. W. Railroad."
Presley started, his fists clenching so abruptly as to all but
split his white gloves. He was not conscious of what he said in
reply, and Mrs. Cedarquist was so taken up with her own endless
stream of talk that she did not observe his confusion.
"Their daughter Honora is going to Europe next week; her mother
is to take her, and Mrs. Gerard is to have just a few people to
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