{"query": "A parable — Authority", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_23818bc5d8fe", "title": "A parable — Authority", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked a passing stranger where to build his house. The stranger pointed to a place by a river. The man built there. Soon the rains came, and the river rose, and the house was lost. The stranger ", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_f8186323a970", "title": "A parable — Speech silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. The proverb is dry. It does not say the fool became wise. It only says he was", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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 ", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_0868417efbfa", "title": "A parable — Temptation door b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A traveler entered a room with one door behind and one door ahead. The room grew dim; he could not tell which door he had come through. Then he remembered that the door he had not yet opened was the d", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_d346f6fb05a9", "title": "A parable — Grace to others", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An elder brother stayed in the field while the younger spent the inheritance and returned. The father killed the calf for the younger and threw a feast. The elder stood outside, refusing to enter. The", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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 ", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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 ", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_84a2b7853573", "title": "A parable — Grief companion", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A shepherd walked his sheep through a narrow valley. The sheep saw only shadows and were afraid. They did not see the rod and staff in the shepherd's hand, nor hear his quiet word among the rocks. He ", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_61bf8457ea27", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man prayed three times for the thorn to be removed. Each time the answer was no. The fourth time he did not ask, and learned: the thorn was the door through which grace had come. The strength had be", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_182e7452566e", "title": "A parable — Strawman", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man heard his neighbor's voice through the wall and built in his mind a smaller man, a weaker man, easier to answer. He spent the evening defeating this smaller man. In the morning the neighbor knoc", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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 ", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}], "house": {"door": "FIND", "kind": "cards", "trail": "results", "seal": null, "next_step": {"do": "open the top card", "door": "FIND", "tool": "card_get", "params": {"id": "card_n_23818bc5d8fe"}}, "ends": "a verdict or a card · the trail · a seal · one next step"}}