| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 26: 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 26: 28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Numbers 26: 29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites--and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
Numbers 26: 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
Numbers 26: 31 and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
Numbers 26: 32 and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Numbers 26: 33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 26: 34 These are the families of Manasseh; and they that were numbered of them were fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.'
Numbers 26: 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
Numbers 26: 36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
Numbers 26: 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their familie 
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: become crooked, so never a little one could find a way into the
Laughing Valley.
Lonely days now fell upon Claus, for he was denied the pleasure of
bringing happiness to the children whom he had learned to love. Yet
he bore up bravely, for he thought surely the time would come when the
Awgwas would abandon their evil designs to injure him.
He devoted all his hours to toy-making, and when one plaything had
been completed he stood it on a shelf he had built for that purpose.
When the shelf became filled with rows of toys he made another one,
and filled that also. So that in time he had many shelves filled with
gay and beautiful toys representing horses, dogs, cats, elephants,
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: When the yearly accounts were made up the colonel always added
something to this little store by way of acknowledging the cashier's
services, until in 1824 the latter had a credit of fifty-eight
thousand francs. In was then that Charles Mignon, Comte de La Bastie,
a title he never used, crowned his cashier with the final happiness of
residing at the Chalet, where at the time when this story begins
Madame Mignon and her daughter were living in obscurity.
The deplorable state of Madame Mignon's health was caused in part by
the catastrophe to which the absence of her husband was due. Grief had
taken three years to break down the docile German woman; but it was a
grief that gnawed at her heart like a worm at the core of a sound
Modeste Mignon |
