| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: LUK 19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him,
saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
LUK 19:15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having
received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto
him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every
man had gained by trading.
LUK 19:16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten
pounds.
LUK 19:17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou
hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten
cities.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: and the man came into town galloping.
No need to fire the little pistol by her window, as he had once thought
to do! She was outside before he could leap to the ground. And as he held
her, she could only laugh, and cry, and say "Forgive me! Oh, why have you
been so long?" She took him back to the room where his picture was, and
made him sit, and sat herself close. "What is it?" she asked him. For
through the love she read something else in his serious face. So then he
told her how nothing was wrong; and as she listened to all that he had to
tell, she, too, grew serious, and held very close to him. "Dear, dear
neighbor!" she said.
As they sat so, happy with deepening happiness, but not gay yet, young
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "A great deal better, sir, but then I know him better."
Bucky's eyes rested for a moment almost tenderly on Frances. "I
reckon he is better worth knowing," he said.
"Indeed! And you so brave, and patient, and good?" she mocked.
"Oh! Am I all that?" asked Bucky easily.
"So I have been given to understand."
Out of the corner of his eye O'Connor caught the embarrassed,
reproachful look that Frances gave her audacious friend, and he
found it easy to fit quotation marks round the admirable
qualities that had just been ascribed to him. He guessed himself
blushing a deux with his little friend, and also divined Miss
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