{"id": "card_n_8cf619b3f99d", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Pride humility b", "body": "A teacher knelt to tie the shoes of his students before the long walk. The students were embarrassed and tried to refuse; but the teacher said, 'You will walk farther if your shoes are tied. The walking is the lesson, not who tied them.' That evening one student tied another's, and a third tied the teacher's. The lesson had been the tying.\n\nAsk yourself: Whose shoes have you been refusing to tie because of who you are?\n\nRED — be honest. Pride asks 'who do they think I am?' Humility asks 'whose foot needs the shoe tied?'\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_phil_2_3", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "authority_trust", "reasoning", "RED"], "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": "eb2706e5f448cd730ea0670124cc4039ac5bca0c724ee54897cf4408b7225cdb"}