{"query": "A parable — Decision two roads", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8b6256f0ebba", "title": "A parable — Decision two roads", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the fork of two roads with no map. He sat down to think and a thousand reasons came, half for each road. After many hours he saw he was no closer to choosing. Then he remembered the thi"}, {"id": "card_n_a9b95338eb36", "title": "A parable — Marriage drift", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two of you are stronger than one; but a threefold cord is not quickly broken. A marriage of two has spent its slack. A marriage with the Maker as the third strand can be pulled and pulled and not part"}, {"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_556191d135e7", "title": "A parable — Witness two or three", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man had a clear insight at midnight. He wrote it down and brought it to his friend at dawn. The friend nodded but asked questions. By noon he was less sure. He brought it to a second friend, who ask"}, {"id": "card_n_f2c9365bdedf", "title": "A parable — Forking", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man entered a garden of many paths. He wandered until he found a flower, and said: 'This is the path I chose from the start.' But he had only chosen the path that ended in a flower. The other paths "}, {"id": "card_n_41c5287a97b2", "title": "A parable — Argue brother", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two brothers built a wall together. One laid the stones to the left, the other to the right, and each thought the other was crooked. They never asked the third brother — the one who could see both sid"}, {"id": "card_n_1c81307d0e25", "title": "A parable — Friendship break", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two men walked together for many years. One day one of them stepped on the other's foot. They argued; then they walked apart. Each told the story to those who would listen, and the story grew. By the "}, {"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_7195b6d9f8f7", "title": "A parable — Generosity giving", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The rich men cast much money into the treasury, and the widow cast in two mites — which is a farthing. The Lord said: she has cast in more than they all. They gave of their abundance; she gave of her "}, {"id": "card_n_ba0392c94b0e", "title": "A parable — Forgive", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Peter asked: how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times? The answer was: I say not unto thee, until seven times: but until seventy times seven. The arithmetic was a"}, {"id": "card_n_1140c9fe707a", "title": "A parable — Disability strength", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A potter set down two vessels: one whole, one cracked. The whole carried water without leaking; the cracked one watered the path it walked. By summer the path beside the cracked vessel was lined with "}, {"id": "card_n_6589cacd0acb", "title": "A parable — Replication", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Twenty men reported seeing a vision in the desert. The elders sent them out again, alone, to the same place. Only seven saw the vision twice. The other thirteen had seen the heat shimmer, the trick of"}, {"id": "card_n_0f0d0bd1e226", "title": "A parable — Money giving b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A farmer had two pockets. From the first he gave; into the second he stored. The first pocket emptied; the second filled. He could not understand why the first felt warmer than the second, but it did."}, {"id": "card_n_e9423db7082b", "title": "A parable — Competition brother", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two disciples ran toward the same tomb. One arrived first but waited; the other arrived later and went in. The first did not boast of the running; the second did not boast of the entering. Years later"}, {"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"}]}