| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: it was chosen by Nance to be her bleaching-green.
One day she brought a bucketful of linen, and had but begun
to wring and lay them out when Mr. Archer stepped from the
thicket on the far side, drew very deliberately near, and sat
down in silence on the grass. Nance looked up to greet him
with a smile, but finding her smile was not returned, she
fell into embarrassment and stuck the more busily to her
employment. Man or woman, the whole world looks well at any
work to which they are accustomed; but the girl was ashamed
of what she did. She was ashamed, besides, of the sun-bonnet
that so well became her, and ashamed of her bare arms, which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: this fact there came to his nostrils, wafted from his right by a
vagrant breeze, the strong odour of a company of great apes.
The panther had taken to a large tree as Tarzan came within
sight of him, and beyond and below him Tarzan saw the tribe
of Akut lolling in a little, natural clearing. Some of them
were dozing against the boles of trees, while others roamed
about turning over bits of bark from beneath which they
transferred the luscious grubs and beetles to their mouths.
Akut was the closest to Sheeta.
The great cat lay crouched upon a thick limb, hidden from
the ape's view by dense foliage, waiting patiently until the
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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: and does account us entirely righteous and holy for the sake
of Christ, our Mediator. And although sin in the flesh has not
yet been altogether removed or become dead, yet He will not
punish or remember it.
And such faith, renewal, and forgiveness of sins is followed
by good works. And what there is still sinful or imperfect
also in them shall not be accounted as sin or defect, even
[and that, too] for Christ's sake; but the entire man, both as
to his person and his works, is to be called and to be
righteous and holy from pure grace and mercy, shed upon us
[unfolded] and spread over us in Christ. Therefore we cannot
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