| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: life everlasting; that is, He first leads us into His holy
congregation, and places us in the bosom of the Church, whereby He
preaches to us and brings us to Christ.
For neither you nor I could ever know anything of Christ, or believe on
Him, and obtain Him for our Lord, unless it were offered to us and
granted to our hearts by the Holy Ghost through the preaching of the
Gospel. The work is done and accomplished; for Christ has acquired and
gained the treasure for us by His suffering, death, resurrection, etc.
But if the work remained concealed so that no one knew of it, then it
would be in vain and lost. That this treasure, therefore, might not lie
buried, but be appropriated and enjoyed, God has caused the Word to go
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: her cheek, because of the salt from her dried-up tears. And in her dream
she was not a poor indentured child any more, living with Boers. It was
her father who kissed her. He said he had only been asleep--that day when
he lay down under the thorn-bush; he had not really died. He felt her
hair, and said it was grown long and silky, and he said they would go back
to Denmark now. He asked her why her feet were bare, and what the marks on
her back were. Then he put her head on his shoulder, and picked her up,
and carried her away, away! She laughed--she could feel her face against
his brown beard. His arms were so strong.
As she lay there dreaming, with the ants running over her naked feet, and
with her brown curls lying in the sand, a Hottentot came up to her. He was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: brighter. She had very little feeling about Rhett being hanged.
Her need of money was too pressing, too desperate, for her to
bother about his ultimate fate. Besides, she half shared Dr.
Meade's opinion that hanging was too good for him. Any man who'd
leave a woman stranded between two armies in the middle of the
night, just to go off and fight for a Cause already lost, deserved
hanging. . . . If she could somehow manage to marry him while he
was in jail, all those millions would be hers and hers alone should
he be executed. And if marriage was not possible, perhaps she
could get a loan from him by promising to marry him when he was
released or by promising--oh promising anything! And if they
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