{"query": "A parable — Hope waiting", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3ff4bf122956", "title": "A parable — Hope waiting", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman waited for the child she could not have. Year by year the hope deferred made her heart sick. Then one day, late and against every expectation, the child came, and the hope was a tree, and the "}, {"id": "card_c_30a6decb55b6", "title": "A parable — Hope waiting ↔ Easton: Hope", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Year by year the hope deferred made her heart sick.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_f510f74b1f7a", "title": "Easton: Hope", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and fundamen"}, {"id": "card_n_1e4b38fc12d4", "title": "A parable — Hope false", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The prophet wrote: I know the plans I have for you, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. The exiles took this to mean tomorrow. It was meant for seventy years later. Th"}, {"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_c_b5235bf2ece7", "title": "A parable — Hope waiting ↔ Easton: Tree of life", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "\"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life\" (Proverbs 13:12)  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"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_e6c59d573e97", "title": "A parable — Parent child", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The son took his inheritance and spent it in a far country, and when he returned with nothing, the father saw him a great way off, and ran. The father did not wait for the apology to begin running. Th"}, {"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_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_src_comm_psalms_71_14", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 71:14", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 71:14 — David is here in a holy transport of joy and praise, arising from his faith and hope in God; we have both together Psa 71:14, where there is a sudden and remarkable change of his voi"}, {"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. 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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. 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