| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: straight to the surface from where they had come. The
water was no longer whirling them and they seemed to be
drawn in a slanting direction through still, cool ocean
depths. And then -- in much quicker time than I have
told it -- up they popped to the surface and were cast
at full length upon a sandy beach, where they lay
choking and gasping for breath and wondering what had
happened to them.
Trot was the first to recover. Disengaging herself
from Cap'n Bill's wet embrace and sitting up, she
rubbed the water from her eyes and then looked around
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: of thy hired servants."' And he arose, and came to his father.
But, when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had
compassion, and ran, and embraced him, and kissed him tenderly,
and, restoring him to his former rank, made a feast of joyaunce
because his son was found again, and killed the fatted calf. Lo,
this parable, that Jesus spake to us, concerneth such as turn
again from sin, and fall at his feet in repentance. Again, he
representeth a certain good shepherd that had an hundred sheep,
and, when one was lost, left the ninety and nine, and went forth
to seek that which was gone astray, until he found it: and he
laid it on his shoulders, and folded it with those that had not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: We may see how all things are
Seas and cities, near and far,
And the flying fairies' looks,
In the picture story-books.
How am I to sing your praise,
Happy chimney-corner days,
Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
Reading picture story-books?
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My Treasures
These nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest,
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