{"query": "A parable — Fear failure", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_04502b1ebf95", "title": "A parable — Fear failure", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe — exactly as it had been given. The master called him wicked, not for "}, {"id": "card_n_5cc788344ecd", "title": "A parable — Fear death", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "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"}, {"id": "card_n_653e4ac3ff00", "title": "A parable — Fear of god", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young man asked an elder, 'Where does wisdom begin?' The elder said, 'At the door of the only one larger than your question.' The young man went to that door and knelt. He did not ask first; he wait"}, {"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_15a8336a6fb0", "title": "The Servant Who Buried the Talent", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Receives one talent; afraid of the master, hides it in the ground; returns exactly what was given; called wicked and slothful; the talent given to the one who already had ten.\n\nFailure mode: Fear-driv"}, {"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_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_bb89dbd4d157", "title": "A parable — Water anomaly", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In the deep of winter the lake froze. The fish below thought all was lost. But the water near the bed grew warmer than the ice above, for the maker had made water unlike all other things — densest jus"}, {"id": "card_n_c89b1dca1f02", "title": "A parable — Sabbath", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Six days the Maker made the earth, and on the seventh he rested — not because he was tired, but because rest was the seal he set in time. Those who do not rest are not earning more; they are denying t"}, {"id": "card_n_d020834a87f2", "title": "A parable — Temptation", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. The new temptation you fear is not new — only newly aimed at you. With the temptation, the same road has a door. The door is sometimes "}, {"id": "card_n_e41105aaa59f", "title": "Chronic disease as nested control-system failure — a hardened, falsifiable framework", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matt's public-domain framework: chronic disease is not one broken part but a failure somewhere in a\nNESTED CONTROL SYSTEM — five layers, each regulating the one below: (1) Cellular stress response →\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_18b70eabee39", "title": "David the Shepherd-King", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anointed while still in the field with the sheep; refuses Sauls armor for the smooth stones he knows; spares Saul twice in the caves; falls grievously with Bathsheba and Uriah; receives Nathans parabl"}, {"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_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_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"}]}