| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: "Not a thing. I've just had my breakfast. It's
only nine o'clock----"
"I know, but we've come thirty miles and the air
makes you hungry. We ought to eat about six good meals
a day."
She shook her head.
"No--not yet. I'm too happy with these new wings.
I want to fly some more--come on----"
He lifted his hand in his favorite gesture of
obedience.
"'Nuff said--we'll streak it back now by another
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezra 6: 19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra 6: 20 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure; and they killed the passover lamb for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Ezra 6: 21 And the children of Israel, that were come back out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, did eat,
Ezra 6: 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra 7: 1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
Ezra 7: 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
Ezra 7: 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezra 7: 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: The course-masonry, fortunately, was above the water-line, but the
coping was still unset and the rubble backing of much of the wall
unfinished. Two weeks of constant work were necessary before that
part of the structure contained in the first section of the
contract would be entirely safe for the coming winter. Babcock
doubled his gangs, and utilized every hour of low water to the
utmost, even when the men stood waist-deep. It was his only hope
for completing the first section that season. After that would
come the cold, freezing the mortar, and ending everything.
Tom Grogan performed wonders. Not only did she work her teams far
into the night, but during all this bad weather she stood
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