| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 45: 18 Thus saith the Lord GOD: In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish; and thou shalt purify the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 45: 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
Ezekiel 45: 20 And so thou shalt do on the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple; so shall ye make atonement for the house.
Ezekiel 45: 21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover; a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Ezekiel 45: 22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering.
Ezekiel 45: 23 And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt-offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering.
Ezekiel 45: 24 And he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel 45: 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; to the sin-offering as well as the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering as well as the oil.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: a fight for it, but four weeks--it took a month each way in those
days--was too absurdly little; I could do nothing. But I would not
stay at mamma's. It was more than I would ask of myself, that daily
disappointment under the mask of gratified discovery, for long.
I spent an approving, unnatural week, in my farcical character,
bridling my resentment and hiding my mortification with pretty
phrases; and then I went up to town and drowned my sorrows in the
summer sales. I took John with me. I may have been Cecily's mother
in theory, but I was John's wife in fact.
We went back to the frontier, and the regiment saw a lot of service.
That meant medals and fun for my husband, but economy and anxiety
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: up the trousers of us, and the Jersey snipes that
peck at us, masquerading under the name and denom-
ination of mosquitoes. What is it all for Carney, and
the rint going on just the same over at the flats?'
"Tis the great annual Municipal Free Night
Outing Lawn Party,' says I, 'given by the polis,
Hetty Green and the Drug Trust. During the heated
season they hold a week of it in the principal parks.
'Tis a scheme to reach that portion of the people
that's not worth taking up to North Beach for a
fish fry.'
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