{"id": "card_n_e7e731e3225d", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Burnout well", "body": "A woman drew water from her own strength for many years. The well went lower each season. When at last it was dry she sat at the wellhead and wept. A stranger came and said, 'There is another well, deeper than yours, and it never runs dry. But you must lower your bucket; you cannot keep raising it.' She had to be empty before she would believe him.\n\nAsk yourself: Whose well are you drawing from when yours runs dry?\n\nGOD — wait. The source of true strength is not in you. The dry season is the invitation to a deeper well.\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_4_14", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "metabolism", "time_sequence", "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": "c1b070ac42aad1941eaeb562cd445aa4eedff2d897fd06a496aed8d6cb6d789c"}