| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: that their bodies filled the highways; and to increase our
affliction, the wolves having devoured the carcases, and finding no
other food, fell upon the living; their natural fierceness being so
increased by hunger, that they dragged the children out of the very
houses. I saw myself a troop of wolves tear a child of six years
old in pieces before I or any one else could come to its assistance.
While I was entirely taken up with the duties of my ministry, the
viceroy of Tigre received the commands of the Emperor to search for
the bones of Don Christopher de Gama. On this occasion it may not
be thought impertinent to give some account of the life and death of
this brave and holy Portuguese, who, after having been successful in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: HYPATIA. Oh! scandalmongering?
MRS TARLETON. Oh no: we all do that: thats only human nature. But
you know theyve no notion of decency. I shall never forget the first
day I spent with a marchioness, two duchesses, and no end of Ladies
This and That. Of course it was only a committee: theyd put me on to
get a big subscription out of John. I'd never heard such talk in my
life. The things they mentioned! And it was the marchioness that
started it.
HYPATIA. What sort of things?
MRS TARLETON. Drainage!! She'd tried three systems in her castle;
and she was going to do away with them all and try another. I didnt
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 73: 20 As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.
Psalms 73: 21 For my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins.
Psalms 73: 22 But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.
Psalms 73: 23 Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou holdest my right hand.
Psalms 73: 24 Thou wilt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me with glory.
Psalms 73: 25 Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And beside Thee I desire none upon earth.
Psalms 73: 26 My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
Psalms 73: 27 For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee.
Psalms 73: 28 But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works.
Psalms 74: 1 Maschil of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever? Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture?
Psalms 74: 2 Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast gotten of old, which Thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance; and mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt.
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