| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: could not be called a temptation. But to consent thereto is when we
give it the reins and do not resist or pray against it.
Therefore we Christians must be armed and daily expect to be
incessantly attacked, in order that no one may go on in security and
heedlessly, as though the devil were far from us, but at all times
expect and parry his blows. For though I am now chaste, patient, kind,
and in firm faith, the devil will this very hour send such an arrow
into my heart that I can scarcely stand. For he is an enemy that never
desists nor becomes tired, so that when one temptation ceases, there
always arise others and fresh ones.
Accordingly, there is no help or comfort except to run hither and to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "What idea? Are you ever going to get to the point? We're halfway
home now. I want to know about Pa."
"I'm trying to tell you," said Will, "and we're so near home, I
guess I'd better stop right here till I've finished."
He drew rein and the horse stopped and snorted. They had halted by
the wild overgrown mock-orange hedge that marked the Macintosh
property. Glancing under the dark trees Scarlett could just
discern the tall ghostly chimneys still rearing above the silent
ruin. She wished that Will had chosen any other place to stop.
"Well, the long and the short of her idea was to make the Yankees
pay for the cotton they burned and the stock they drove off and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: "Good luck your aid, your guide good fortune be."
III
The flood received them in his bottom low
And lilt them up above his billows thin;
The waters so east up a branch or bough,
By violence first plunged and dived therein:
But when upon the shore the waves them throw,
The knights for their fair guide to look begin,
And gazing round a little bark they spied,
Wherein a damsel sate the stern to guide.
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