| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezra 5: 6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharesachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;
Ezra 5: 7 they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: 'Unto Darius the king, all peace.
Ezra 5: 8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth on with diligence and prospereth in their hands.
Ezra 5: 9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
Ezra 5: 10 We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.
Ezra 5: 11 And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished.
Ezra 5: 12 But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra 5: 13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: favorably for the brute, but the mood passed, their old selves
reasserted their ascendency, and they smiled. It was portentous
however that they did not laugh aloud, for the brute's act
constituted a side-splitting witticism according to the
ethics which rule green Martian humor.
That I have taken moments to write down a part of what
occurred as that blow fell does not signify that I remained
inactive for any such length of time. I think I must have
sensed something of what was coming, for I realize now that
I was crouched as for a spring as I saw the blow aimed at
her beautiful, upturned, pleading face, and ere the hand
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: And wing'd with whim, it gleams in flight
Like April blossoms wind-pursued
Down aisles of tangled underwood;--
Nor be too serious when you write
Your rondeau's tail!
VISITORS
THEY haunt me, they tease me with hinted
Withheld revelations,
The songs that I may not utter;
They lead me, they flatter, they woo me.
I follow, I follow, I snatch
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