{"query": "A parable — Suffering illness", "count": 20, "results": [{"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"}, {"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_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_e518ae8c8e4c", "title": "A parable — Doubt silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist cried: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He cried it day and night, and there was no answer. He wrote the cry down anyway. Centuries later the Son of God said the same words from"}, {"id": "card_c_af302f2c8d62", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness ↔ 2 Corinthians 12:9", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor 12:9).  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g20704", "title": "G20704 — μεριζομένως (merizomenōs): suffering", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "μεριζομένως (merizomenōs), Strong's G20704: suffering. suffering"}, {"id": "card_src_word_catastrophic_illness", "title": "catastrophic illness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "catastrophic illness: (noun) severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g3804", "title": "G3804 — πάθημα (pathēma): suffering", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "πάθημα (pathēma), Strong's G3804: suffering. πάθημα , -τος, τό (πάσχω), like πάθος, __1. that which befalls one, a suffering, affliction : pl., Rom.8:18 , 2Co.1:6-7 , Col.1:24 , 2Ti.3:11 , Heb.2:10 10"}, {"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_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_e586205d665c", "title": "A parable — Least privilege", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A steward of a great house carried every key on his belt. A guest borrowed one key for one room, and when he was found in another room, the steward had no defense, for every door had been open. A wise"}, {"id": "card_n_4543b0454ea6", "title": "A parable — Envy neighbor", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman counted her neighbor's blessings each morning and her own each evening. 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. He had moved his arm a hundred thousand"}, {"id": "card_c_3d7ca6b60b1f", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness ↔ Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "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.  — a concord the ca"}, {"id": "card_c_dc3401b5f23e", "title": "A parable — Strawman ↔ A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"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_de582c7ac9a4", "title": "A parable — Pride praise b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was praised for his work, and walked taller because of it. By evening he had grown to fit the praise. By morning the praise had moved to another, and he was small again. The praise had not added"}, {"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"}]}