| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: However, on the outskirts changes were apparent enough; notably in
dwelling-house architecture. The fine new homes are noble and beautiful
and modern. They stand by themselves, too, with green lawns around them;
whereas the dwellings of a former day are packed together in blocks,
and are all of one pattern, with windows all alike, set in an arched
frame-work of twisted stone; a sort of house which was handsome enough
when it was rarer.
There was another change--the Forest Park. This was new to me.
It is beautiful and very extensive, and has the excellent merit
of having been made mainly by nature. There are other parks,
and fine ones, notably Tower Grove and the Botanical Gardens;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: away any longer he returned to the patio.
The instant his glance rested upon Nell's face he divined she was
feigning sleep. The faint rose-blush had paled. The warm, rich,
golden tint of her skin had fled. Dick dropped upon his knees and
bent over her. Though his blood was churning in his veins, his
breast laboring, his mind whirling with the wonder of that moment
and its promise, he made himself deliberate. He wanted more than
anything he had ever wanted in his life to see if she would keep
up that pretense of sleep and let him kiss her. She must have felt
his breath, for her hair waved off her brow. Her cheeks were now white.
Her breast swelled and sank. He bent down closer--closer. But he must
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: thinks it ludicrous that faith should be the foremost service any person can
render unto God.
Let your faith supplant reason. Abraham mastered reason by faith in the Word
of God. Not as though reason ever yields meekly. It put up a fight against
the faith of Abraham. Reason protested that it was absurd to think that Sarah
who was ninety years old and barren by nature, should give birth to a son.
But faith won the victory and routed reason, that ugly beast and enemy of
God. Everyone who by faith slays reason, the world's biggest monster, renders
God a real service, a better service than the religions of all races and all
the drudgery of meritorious monks can render.
Men fast, pray, watch, suffer. They intend to appease the wrath of God and to
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