{"query": "A parable — Generosity giving", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_c_6de75648c9a5", "title": "A parable — Money giving b ↔ A parable — Generosity giving", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "FLOOR — protect what cannot recover. Stored generosity loses value; given generosity gains it.\n\n(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true e"}, {"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_7e147a414035", "title": "A parable — Generosity overflow", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A widow had a jar of oil. The prophet told her to pour. She poured into one vessel; it filled. She poured into another; it filled. As long as there were empty vessels, the oil flowed. When she stopped"}, {"id": "card_n_018fa951559a", "title": "A parable — Generosity hoard", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A rich man's ground brought forth plenty, so he tore down his barns and built greater ones. He said to his soul: take ease, eat, drink, be merry. That night God said to him: thou fool, this night thy "}, {"id": "card_n_fcc56a2cbd8a", "title": "A parable — Calling late", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At the eleventh hour the master found men still standing in the market, and asked, 'Why have ye stood here all the day idle?' They said, 'Because no man hath hired us.' He sent them into the vineyard."}, {"id": "card_c_044340409eac", "title": "A parable — Generosity giving ↔ Easton: Mite", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "the widow cast in two mites — which is a farthing  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_94af142b3e44", "title": "A parable — Generosity giving ↔ Easton: Treasury", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The rich men cast much money into the treasury  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"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_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_src_word_giving", "title": "giving", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "giving: (noun) the act of giving — syn: gift · (noun) the imparting of news or promises etc. · (noun) disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return · (adjective) given "}, {"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"}, {"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_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_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"}, {"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 "}, {"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_6f8626f8a063", "title": "A parable — Marathon", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young runner sprinted from the first mile, and the crowd cheered him. By the tenth mile he walked. By the fifteenth he sat. An older runner passed him at a pace the crowd had laughed at, and finishe"}, {"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_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 "}]}