{"query": "A parable — Calling late", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fcc56a2cbd8a", "title": "A parable — Calling late", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At the eleventh hour the master found men still standing in the market, and asked, 'Why have ye stood here all the day idle?' They said, 'Because no man hath hired us.' He sent them into the vineyard."}, {"id": "card_n_0c29d0e6bba0", "title": "A parable — Calling finding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A prophet stood on a mountain and waited for God in the wind. The wind came and was loud, but God was not in it. Then earthquake, then fire — and God was in neither. After all of that, a still small v"}, {"id": "card_n_3ff4bf122956", "title": "A parable — Hope waiting", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman waited for the child she could not have. Year by year the hope deferred made her heart sick. Then one day, late and against every expectation, the child came, and the hope was a tree, and the "}, {"id": "card_n_df07989eae54", "title": "A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A sheep heard the shepherd's voice calling at the gate, and ran to open it. But the voice was a wolf in the shepherd's coat. None of the other sheep had seen the shepherd come; none had been asked. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_8ecd78874f5b", "title": "A parable — Calling doubting", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young man was told to speak to nations, and he answered: 'I cannot — I am only a youth.' The answer he received was not 'you are older than you think' but 'do not say you are a youth — go where I se"}, {"id": "card_n_eed69ae1df64", "title": "A parable — Lonely christ", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A traveler walked a long road and saw no one. He was sure he was alone, for the road was empty and the sky was wide. As he walked he heard his own footsteps doubled. When he stopped, the footsteps sto"}, {"id": "card_n_5335d3c35271", "title": "A parable — Worry children", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A mother watched her child run toward the road and called him back a thousand times. By the thousandth call her voice was tired and her child no longer turned. A wise woman sat beside her and said, 'Y"}, {"id": "card_n_90ab16a347bd", "title": "A parable — Suffering grief", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When his friend died, the Lord did not say, 'do not mourn, for I will raise him.' He wept first. He raised him afterward. The tears were not a failure of faith — they were faith making room for love.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_effe4bf87816", "title": "A parable — Envy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a ledger of his neighbor's blessings. The ledger grew thick. His neighbor's house, his neighbor's wife, his neighbor's ox, his neighbor's days. He carried the ledger everywhere. He could no"}, {"id": "card_n_7fc1166cbd90", "title": "A parable — Suffering betrayal", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist wrote: it was not an enemy who reproached me — I could have borne that. It was you, my equal, my companion. The wound from a friend's hand goes deeper than the sword's, because the friend"}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_e586205d665c", "title": "A parable — Least privilege", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A steward of a great house carried every key on his belt. A guest borrowed one key for one room, and when he was found in another room, the steward had no defense, for every door had been open. A wise"}, {"id": "card_n_4543b0454ea6", "title": "A parable — Envy neighbor", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman counted her neighbor's blessings each morning and her own each evening. By month's end she could recite her neighbor's list and had forgotten her own. The garden she walked through every day h"}, {"id": "card_n_ebd9f46f16cd", "title": "A parable — Addiction scroll", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man drew water from a well that had no bottom. The bucket was light, and came up empty every time. He kept drawing because the bucket was light. Years passed. He had moved his arm a hundred thousand"}, {"id": "card_n_17ba1fbceeda", "title": "A parable — Unconformity", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A scribe wrote the history of a kingdom from the stones in its walls. He thought he had written all of it. But beneath the wall, between two layers of stone, was a missing age — a famine, a fault, a s"}, {"id": "card_n_47bb4f1e56b0", "title": "A parable — Fear future", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man walked toward a forest and saw, miles ahead, that the trees were dark. He carried for hours the weight of what he would find there — until the path turned, and the forest was not on his road at "}, {"id": "card_n_de582c7ac9a4", "title": "A parable — Pride praise b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was praised for his work, and walked taller because of it. By evening he had grown to fit the praise. By morning the praise had moved to another, and he was small again. The praise had not added"}, {"id": "card_n_e20007f8e81a", "title": "A parable — Isostasy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A mountain stood tall above the plain, and the men of the plain envied it. They did not see that beneath the mountain, hidden in the earth, were roots seven times its height. When they tried to be a m"}, {"id": "card_n_23ec117624fc", "title": "A parable — Loaded question", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked his neighbor: 'When did you stop cheating your workers?' His neighbor opened his mouth to answer, then closed it. To answer 'yesterday' was to confess. To answer 'never' was to confess dif"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c841c02410", "title": "A parable — Ltv", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man borrowed against his house until the debt reached the rooftop. When the wind came and shook the price down by a tenth, the rooftop was beneath the debt. He still lived in the house, but the hous"}]}