| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Zechariah 8: 5 And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof.
Zechariah 8: 6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in Mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 8: 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the east country, and from the west country;
Zechariah 8: 8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
Zechariah 8: 9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets that were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
Zechariah 8: 10 For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the adversary; for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
Zechariah 8: 11 But now I will not be unto the remnant of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 8: 12 For as the seed of peace, the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: Presently the unknown man turned on his pallet.
The Italian then looked fixedly at Madame Servin, who said, without
the slightest change of face:--
"Your copy is as fine as the original; if I had to choose between the
two I should be puzzled."
"Monsieur Servin has not taken his wife into his confidence as to this
mystery," thought Ginevra, who, after replying to the young wife's
speech with a gentle smile of incredulity, began to hum a Corsican
"canzonetta" to cover the noise that was made by the prisoner.
It was so unusual a thing to hear the studious Italian sing, that all
the other young girls looked up at her in surprise. Later, this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: taken a habit of contradicting for the sake of contradiction, without
reason, without even trying to justify his opinions; he insisted on
knowing the why and the wherefore of everything; grew restless under a
delay or an omission; meddled with every item of the household
affairs, and compelled his wife and the servants to render him the
most minute and fatiguing account of all that was done; never allowing
them the slightest freedom of action. Formerly he did not lose his
temper except for some special reason; now his irritation was
constant. Perhaps the care of his farms, the interests of agriculture,
an active out-door life had formerly soothed his atrabilious temper by
giving it a field for its uneasiness, and by furnishing employment for
The Lily of the Valley |
