| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 7: 10 and repayeth them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them; He will not be slack to him that hateth Him, He will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 7: 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Deuteronomy 7: 12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers,
Deuteronomy 7: 13 and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy 7: 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
Deuteronomy 7: 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy 7: 16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: They landed.
"Now, Huck, where we're a-standing you could
touch that hole I got out of with a fishing-pole. See
if you can find it."
Huck searched all the place about, and found
nothing. Tom proudly marched into a thick clump of
sumach bushes and said:
"Here you are! Look at it, Huck; it's the snuggest
hole in this country. You just keep mum about it.
All along I've been wanting to be a robber, but I knew
I'd got to have a thing like this, and where to run across
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: thing. It is merely the culmination of a long-drawn persecution.
"Which you invited," she cut in. "Be just, monsieur."
"I hope that it is not in my nature to be otherwise, mademoiselle."
"Consider, then, that you killed his friend."
"I find in that nothing with which to reproach myself. My
justification lay in the circumstances - the subsequent events in
this distracted country surely confirm it."
"And... " She faltered a little, and looked away from him for the
first time. "And that you... that you... And what of Mademoiselle
Binet, whom he was to have married?"
He stared at her for a moment in sheer surprise. "Was to have
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