{"query": "A parable — Obedience small", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_967ca336e8b1", "title": "A parable — Obedience small", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked the master what great work was given him. The master pointed to the floor that needed sweeping. The man swept the floor that day, and the next, and the next. After many years the master sa"}, {"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_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_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_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_a4f4879a436b", "title": "A parable — Doubt hidden", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man searched for the One who made the world, and could not see him. He concluded the One was not there. He had not yet considered that the made could not contain the maker — that any God you could s"}, {"id": "card_n_70e9d4c2ce55", "title": "A parable — Legacy seed", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A seed in the farmer's hand was tight and small. It was sure of its smallness. It thought it would remain a seed forever. The farmer dropped it into the earth and it disappeared. The seed never saw th"}, {"id": "card_n_5294ef904e9f", "title": "A parable — Hidden sin", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a small fire in his cellar. He never spoke of it; it burned only when he was alone. He told himself it warmed only him and harmed no one. The fire ate the supports of the house slowly, wher"}, {"id": "card_n_c8d9efdb47ac", "title": "A parable — Addiction chain", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man wore a small chain around his wrist. It was light at first and he did not notice. Each year he added a link to it himself, because the weight was familiar. By the time he wished to remove it, th"}, {"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_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"}, {"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_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"}]}