| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil: learn to do
well. Come now, and let us reason together: though your sins be
as scarlet, I will make them white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, I will make them white as wool.' Such therefore
being the promises made by God to them that turn to him, tarry
not, O thou man, nor make delay: but draw nigh to Christ, our
loving God, and be enlightened, and thy face shall not be
ashamed. For as soon as thou goest down into the laver of Holy
Baptism, all the defilement of the old man, and all the burden of
thy many sins, is buried in the water, and passeth into
nothingness, and thou comest up from thence a new man, pure from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: right."
"But he doesn't know them as I do!" The girl shivered. "You
can't understand. Five years! Five long years! Sometimes I
thought I should go mad."
"Never mind. It's all over."
"Is it?"
The train was moving now, speeding through the night at a
gradually increasing rate. Suddenly Jane Finn started up.
"What was that? I thought I saw a face--looking in through the
window."
"No, there's nothing. See." Tuppence went to the window, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: in a serious view of their position. However, in a few minutes Sue
seemed to see that their position this morning had a ludicrous side,
and wiping her eyes she laughed.
"It is droll, after all," she said, "that we two, of all people, with our
queer history, should happen to be here painting the Ten Commandments!
You a reprobate, and I--in my condition.... O dear!" ... And with her
hand over her eyes she laughed again silently and intermittently,
till she was quite weak.
"That's better," said Jude gaily. "Now we are right again, aren't we,
little girl!"
"Oh but it is serious, all the same!" she sighed as she took up the brush
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