{"id": "card_n_5cc788344ecd", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Fear death", "body": "A man feared the sea his whole life, for he could not see the bottom. One day a child waded out, laughed, and waded back. The depth had not changed. Only the child trusted the One who made the water.\n\nAsk yourself: Is the depth what frightens you, or is it that you have not trusted the One who made it?\n\nGOD — the resurrection and the life. Fear of death is healed by knowing whose water it is (Jn 11:25).\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_jn_11_25", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "time_sequence", "physical_substance", "GOD"], "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": "6ab80de7cdd67967d51eb4fcbe89e193e3469cd1c4896f5a74c68ea1f5c6a894"}