{"query": "A parable — Parent child", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_src_book_10916", "title": "Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training — Mosiah Hall", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training, by Mosiah Hall. Subjects: Child rearing. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10916"}, {"id": "card_src_book_32118", "title": "Child Versus Parent: Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home — Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) Wise", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Child Versus Parent: Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home, by Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) Wise. Subjects: Parent and child. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg"}, {"id": "card_src_book_57283", "title": "The Century of the Child — Ellen Key", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Century of the Child, by Ellen Key. Subjects: Education; Child rearing; Parent and child. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57283"}, {"id": "card_src_word_foster_parent", "title": "foster-parent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "foster-parent: (noun) a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child — syn: foster parent"}, {"id": "card_src_book_10398", "title": "The American Child — Elizabeth McCracken", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The American Child, by Elizabeth McCracken. Subjects: Parent and child; Children. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10398"}, {"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_src_book_67115", "title": "Their Child — Robert Herrick", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Their Child, by Robert Herrick. Subjects: Husband and wife -- Fiction; Parent and child -- Fiction. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67115"}, {"id": "card_n_5cc788344ecd", "title": "A parable — Fear death", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man feared the sea his whole life, for he could not see the bottom. One day a child waded out, laughed, and waded back. The depth had not changed. Only the child trusted the One who made the water.\n"}, {"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_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_src_word_adoptive_parent", "title": "adoptive parent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "adoptive parent: (noun) a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child — syn: adopter"}, {"id": "card_src_book_59495", "title": "Reject — John Johnson", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reject, by John Johnson. Subjects: Science fiction; Short stories; Parent and child -- Fiction; Child rearing -- Fiction. 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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_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"}]}