| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: Always at his feet hops a little toad brother. One day an Indian
hunter, wading in the deep waters, spied the boy. He had heard
of the baby stolen long ago.
"This is he!" murmured the hunter to himself as he ran to his
wigwam. "I saw among the tall reeds a black-haired boy at play!"
shouted he to the people.
At once the unhappy father and mother cried out, "'Tis he, our
boy!" Quickly he led them to the lake. Peeping through the wild
rice, he pointed with unsteady finger toward the boy playing all
unawares.
"'Tis he! 'tis he!" cried the mother, for she knew him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: up of an ice-floe in the Arctic regions, and what must be the
danger of a ship nipped in the ice and lifted up on high, like
those in the pictures of Arctic voyages which you are so fond of
looking through. You cannot recollect how that winter even in our
little Blackwater Brook the alder stems were all peeled white, and
scarred, as if they had been gnawed by hares and deer, simply by
the rushing and scraping of the ice,--a sight which gave me again
a little picture of the destruction which the ice makes of quays,
and stages, and houses along the shore upon the coasts of North
America, when suddenly setting in with wind and tide, it jams and
piles up high inland, as you may read for yourself some day in a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: good.
JER 24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring
them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down;
and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
JER 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD:
and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall
return unto me with their whole heart.
JER 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil;
surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah,
and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land,
and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
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