{"id":446,"date":"2018-06-19T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/06\/19\/parable-of-day-house-for-special-friend\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:13:54","slug":"parable-of-day-house-for-special-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/parable-of-day-house-for-special-friend","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: A House for a Special Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dsc_4598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"680\" data-original-width=\"1023\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A rich man called his personal architect and said:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBuild a house in a remote land. You can make it any way you want it to be. I want to present the house to a special friend of mine.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The architect gladly accepted the offer and went to the building site, where there were lots of various building tools and materials already.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The architect was a sly guy, though. He thought to himself, \u201cI know my job: no one will notice if I use low-grade materials or apply less stringent quality control. The building will look fine in spite of that. I\u2019ll be the only person who knows about the minor defects. I\u2019ll be able to fulfil the order quicker and earn some more money by selling expensive building materials.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The work was done by the specified day. The rich man came to inspect the house. He looked at it and said:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWell done! Now it\u2019s time to present this house to my friend. He is so special for me that I didn\u2019t spare tools or materials to build him a house. You are that precious friend of mine. I present this house to you!\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">God gives each person a task to perform in life and lets everyone do it freely and use as much creativity as one wants. Each of us will receive the house that he builds in the course of his life on the Resurrection Day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><em>Translated by The Catalogue of Good Deeds<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rich man called his personal architect and said: \u00a0 \u201cBuild a house in a remote land. 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