| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: grass that made him a good dinner.
During the evening Inga talked with the women and
cheered them, promising soon to reunite them with their
husbands who were working in the mines and to send them
back to their own island of Pingaree.
Next morning the boy rose bright and early and found
that Zella had already prepared a nice breakfast. And
after the meal they went to the most southern point of
the island, which was not very far away, Rinkitink
riding upon Bilbil's back and Inga and Zella following
behind them, hand in hand.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: No word was spoken. They worked with their tomahawks on the soft duff and soon
their task was completed. A bed of moss and ferns lined the last resting place
of the chief. His weapons were placed beside him, to go with him to the Happy
Hunting Ground, the eternal home of the redmen, where the redmen believe the
sun will always shine, and where they will be free from their cruel white
foes.
When the grave had been filled and the log rolled on it the Indians stood by
it a moment, each speaking a few words in a low tone, while the night wind
moaned the dead chief's requiem through the tree tops.
Accustomed as Isaac was to the bloody conflicts common to the Indians, and to
the tragedy that surrounded the life of a borderman, the ghastly sight had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: But to return to the subject. I verily desire to see a truly
Christian Council [assembled some time], in order that many
matters and persons might be helped. Not that we need It, for
our churches are now, through God's grace, so enlightened and
equipped with the pure Word and right use of the Sacraments,
with knowledge of the various callings and of right works,
that we on our part ask for no Council, and on such points
have nothing better to hope or expect from a Council. But we
see in the bishoprics everywhere so many parishes vacant and
desolate that one's heart would break, and yet neither the
bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for
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