{"id": "card_n_03b4338c56b8", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Anger grudge", "body": "A man carried a coal in his hand to throw at the one who had wronged him. The coal burned his palm for an hour, then a day, then a year. The other man did not know there had ever been a coal. The man's hand was useless now, and the coal was still hot.\n\nAsk yourself: Whose hand is the coal in?\n\nFLOOR — protect what cannot recover. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath (Eph 4:26). Anger you keep, keeps you.\n\n(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "url": "", "ref": "scripture_eph_4_26", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "metabolism", "time_sequence", "FLOOR"], "connections": [], "author": "operator", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "witness", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "785ec4dee2ce529dc6146c0f4331e94591d87e64166b34b81ccaf784c8212149"}