| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: hold it firmly.
Therefore every Christian has enough in Baptism to learn and to
practice all his life; for he has always enough to do to believe
firmly what it promises and brings: victory over death and the devil,
forgiveness of sin, the grace of God, the entire Christ, and the Holy
Ghost with His gifts. In short, it is so transcendent that if timid
nature could realize it, it might well doubt whether it could be true.
For consider, if there were somewhere a physician who understood the
art of saving men from dying, or, even though they died, of restoring
them speedily to life, so that they would thereafter live forever, how
the world would pour in money like snow and rain, so that because of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: recognized him, and saw that he had a bundle, possibly his coat, wrapped round
his left arm, and his right hand held the glittering tomahawk. I saw him
strike that big Indian there, the one lying with split skull. His wonderful
daring and quickness seemed to make the savages turn at random. He broke
through the circle, swung Nell under his arm, slashed at my bonds as he passed
by, and then was gone as he had come. Not until after you were struck, and
Silvertip came up to me, was I aware my bonds were cut. Wetzel's hatchet had
severed them; it even cut my side, which was bleeding. I was free to help, to
fight, and I did not know it. Fool that I am!"
"I made an awful mess of my part of the rescue," groaned Joe. "I wonder if the
savages know it was Wetzel."
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: pursuing the demoralized remnant of the man hunters.
For a long time I could hear the horrid roaring of the brute
intermingled with the screams and shrieks of his victims,
until finally the awful sounds dwindled and disappeared
in the distance.
Later I learned from Ghak, who had finally come to his
tribesmen and returned with a party to rescue me,
that the ryth, as it is called, pursued the Sagoths until
it had exterminated the entire band. Ghak was, of course,
positive that I had fallen prey to the terrible creature,
which, within Pellucidar, is truly the king of beasts.
At the Earth's Core |
