{"query": "A parable — Worry what if", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f1c2cf8a54d5", "title": "A parable — Worry what if", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman lay awake and ran every path her child might walk for a thousand miles. By morning she had aged a year, and the child had walked one mile, and the road had been gentle. She kissed him goodbye "}, {"id": "card_n_1a69343d884c", "title": "A parable — Clutch", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An archer hit the bullseye at the festival, and the village called him chosen. They forgot the ninety-nine arrows of his ordinary days that had missed by ordinary amounts. The next festival he missed,"}, {"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_80c91a38daef", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_14_do_not_worry: Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or w...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing? "}, {"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_2a58c312be03", "title": "A parable — Meaning lost", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man searched for the meaning of his life under every stone in the field. He turned the field upside down by evening and found nothing. He sat down to weep and saw that the field he had broken had be"}, {"id": "card_n_3664c8c8b024", "title": "A parable — Unforgiveness debt", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was forgiven ten thousand talents. He went out and found a fellow servant who owed him a hundred pence, and seized him by the throat. The lord called him back. 'Shouldest not thou also have "}, {"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_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_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_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_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"}, {"id": "card_n_ec6dc6d5b92f", "title": "A parable — Regression mean", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was called lucky, for the dice fell well for him three nights in a row. He believed it, and bet his house on the fourth. The dice did not know they had favored him, and on the fourth night they "}, {"id": "card_n_152adfad178f", "title": "A parable — Pride status", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Son of God, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God — but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man. T"}, {"id": "card_n_b3dff7685a9e", "title": "A parable — Kerckhoffs", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A locksmith made a lock so clever no one could open it. His pride was the lock itself. When a thief studied the lock long enough, the lock fell open like all locks fall open, and the locksmith had no "}, {"id": "card_n_9906f77428f7", "title": "A parable — Supercooling", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The water in the still glass cooled past freezing, and yet did not freeze. It waited, perfect and clear, for a single grain of dust. When the grain fell, the water turned to ice in an instant. The col"}, {"id": "card_n_5b1b498f6ae0", "title": "A parable — Silence better", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man in the council never spoke first. When his turn came, he had heard everyone and the matter was clearer. Those who had spoken first had often spoken twice — once to argue, and once to retract. He"}]}