{
    "name": "digests",
    "lang": "eng",
    "title": "Digests",
    "description": "",
    "sample-verse": "0.",
    "books": [
        {
            "title": "Priorities",
            "sections": [
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "0.",
                                    "translation": "You have rea­son and con­science to gov­ern your choices. The fol­low­ing priorities are a guide to keep con­science with­in prop­er bounds. They are list­ed by de­creas­ing im­por­tance. Try to ob­serve all the priorities. If two must con­flict, pre­fer the more im­por­tant one."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "1.",
                                    "translation": "A­void com­pul­sion un­less im­me­di­ate­ly nec­es­sary to save life, lib­er­ty, or prop­er­ty."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2.",
                                    "translation": "Choose what you will have at the ex­pense of what you wonʼt."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3.",
                                    "translation": "Give no im­por­tance to that which has none."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "4.",
                                    "translation": "Tend to your own af­fairs."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "5.",
                                    "translation": "Make promises spar­ing­ly."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "6.",
                                    "translation": "Keep your word."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "7.",
                                    "translation": "Make a­mends."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "8.",
                                    "translation": "Be grate­ful."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "9.",
                                    "translation": "Take care of your­self."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "10.",
                                    "translation": "Be spar­ing and cau­tious with behaviors that might be ad­dic­tive."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "11.",
                                    "translation": "Re­spect others."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "12.",
                                    "translation": "Speak kind­ly and qui­et­ly."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "13.",
                                    "translation": "Main­tain a few strong re­la­tion­ships."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "14.",
                                    "translation": "Main­tain sta­ble, long-term re­la­tion­ships with your spouses."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "15.",
                                    "translation": "Ob­tain con­sent from your spouses for all in­ti­mate re­la­tion­ships."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "16.",
                                    "translation": "Raise chil­dren with your spouses."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "17.",
                                    "translation": "Spend some time each day qui­et and a­lone."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "18.",
                                    "translation": "Pray dai­ly."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "19.",
                                    "translation": "Study the Digests and Messages dai­ly, bal­anc­ing lit­er­al and fig­ur­a­tive in­ter­pre­ta­tion."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "20.",
                                    "translation": "A­void con­ten­tion."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "21.",
                                    "translation": "For­give wrongs, re­al and perceived."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "22.",
                                    "translation": "Main­tain po­lit­i­cal neu­tral­i­ty."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "23.",
                                    "translation": "Ac­quire use­ful knowl­edge, then act on it."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "24.",
                                    "translation": "En­gage skill­ful­ly in an oc­cu­pa­tion, trade, or craft."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "25.",
                                    "translation": "Make an hon­est prof­it."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "26.",
                                    "translation": "In­cur debts rare­ly and spar­ing­ly, and pay them back quick­ly."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "27.",
                                    "translation": "Ten per­cent of your an­nu­al ex­pen­di­tures should be donations."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "28.",
                                    "translation": "Keep a mod­est re­serve of use­ful as­sets."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "29.",
                                    "translation": "Smile."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "30.",
                                    "translation": "Serve anon­y­mous­ly, with­out re­mu­ner­a­tion."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "31.",
                                    "translation": "Main­tain your body in hygiene, bal­ance, strength, flex­i­bil­i­ty, and speed."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "32.",
                                    "translation": "De­vote one day in sev­en to re­ju­ve­na­tion and spir­it­u­al growth."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "33.",
                                    "translation": "Im­prove your sur­round­ings."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "title": "Virtues",
            "sections": [
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "0.",
                                    "translation": "Eve­ry vir­tue tak­en to ex­treme be­comes vi­ce. The vir­tues be­low are list­ed in pairs. Bal­ance the two vir­tues in a pair. If youʼre un­sure how to bal­ance them, err on the side of the first. The pairs are list­ed al­pha­bet­i­cal­ly with no rel­a­tive im­por­tance in­tend­ed be­tween them."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "1.",
                                    "translation": "Chal­lenge, com­fort."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2.",
                                    "translation": "Com­pan­ion­ship, sol­i­tude."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3.",
                                    "translation": "Con­tent­ment, am­bi­tion."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "4.",
                                    "translation": "De­tach­ment, at­tach­ment."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "5.",
                                    "translation": "Flex­i­ble, te­na­cious."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "6.",
                                    "translation": "Gen­er­ous, fru­gal."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "7.",
                                    "translation": "Grad­u­al, swift."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "8.",
                                    "translation": "Ho­lis­tic, at­om­is­tic."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "9.",
                                    "translation": "Hum­ble, con­fi­dent."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "10.",
                                    "translation": "In­de­pend­ence, con­form­i­ty."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "11.",
                                    "translation": "In­tel­lect, e­mo­tion."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "12.",
                                    "translation": "Mer­cy, jus­tice."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "13.",
                                    "translation": "O­pen, guard­ed."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "14.",
                                    "translation": "Pre­pare, im­pro­vise."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "15.",
                                    "translation": "Si­lence, com­mu­ni­ca­tion."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "16.",
                                    "translation": "Sim­ple, abun­dant."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "17.",
                                    "translation": "So­lem­ni­ty, hu­mor."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "18.",
                                    "translation": "Sta­ble, dy­nam­ic."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "19.",
                                    "translation": "Tact­ful, hon­est."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "20.",
                                    "translation": "Tra­di­tion, in­no­va­tion."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "21.",
                                    "translation": "Tran­quil­i­ty, ex­cite­ment."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "22.",
                                    "translation": "Work, re­pose."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "title": "Prayer",
            "sections": [
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:1",
                                    "translation": "Of­fer in­for­mal pray­er at least three times dur­ing your wak­ing hours."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:2",
                                    "translation": "Po­si­tion your­self how­ev­er is mean­ing­ful, com­fort­a­ble, and ap­pro­pri­ate to your cir­cum­stances."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:3",
                                    "translation": "Pray si­lent­ly or a­loud."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:4",
                                    "translation": "Be­gin by say­ing, “God in heav­en.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:5",
                                    "translation": "In your own words, ex­press grat­i­tude, ac­knowl­edge your faults, and re­quest guid­ance and as­sis­tance."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:6",
                                    "translation": "Pause to lis­ten."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:7",
                                    "translation": "Con­clude by say­ing, “A­men.”"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:1",
                                    "translation": "Of­fer for­mal pray­er once or twice dur­ing your wak­ing hours,"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:2",
                                    "translation": "with at least one performed out­side."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:3",
                                    "translation": "When praying out­side, con­sid­er turn­ing your back to­wards the ap­prox­i­mate lo­ca­tion of the sun."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:4",
                                    "translation": "Pray a­loud if pos­si­ble."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:5",
                                    "translation": "Make your best ef­fort to per­form each pos­ture of pray­er in turn:"
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:6",
                                    "translation": "Grat­i­tude: Stand, face up­ward, eyes closed, hands clasped, un­til tran­quil."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:7",
                                    "translation": "Re­cite, “God in heav­en, I thank you for life, air to breathe, qui­et places, and the abil­i­ty to choose;"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:8",
                                    "translation": "for challenges, work, e­mo­tion, and the gift of rea­son.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:9",
                                    "translation": "In your own words, ex­press heart­felt grat­i­tude to God."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:10",
                                    "translation": "Con­fes­sion: Bow, face down­ward, eyes closed, hands on knees."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:11",
                                    "translation": "Re­cite, “God in heav­en, I strive to keep the Priorities, to bal­ance the Vir­tues, and to learn from my failures when I donʼt."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:12",
                                    "translation": "I want to be more faith­ful."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:13",
                                    "translation": "I fall short in these ways.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:14",
                                    "translation": "In your own words, con­fess to God your failures, weak­ness­es, and ways you need to im­prove."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:15",
                                    "translation": "Pe­ti­tion: Squat, face for­ward, eyes closed, arms out­stretched, hands cupped to form a bowl."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:16",
                                    "translation": "Re­cite, “God in heav­en, you have giv­en me a beau­ti­ful world to live in, messengers to teach me, and guid­ance when I ask."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:17",
                                    "translation": "Hear my pray­er.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:18",
                                    "translation": "In your own words, re­quest Godʼs guid­ance."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:19",
                                    "translation": "Re­cep­tion: Stand, face down­ward, eyes closed, hands clasped."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:20",
                                    "translation": "Re­cite, “God in heav­en, you let the sun rise on good and evil peo­ple a­like."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:21",
                                    "translation": "You send guid­ance through a gen­tle thought, a soft feel­ing, or a qui­et voice."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:22",
                                    "translation": "Iʼm listening.” Lis­ten for Godʼs guid­ance."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:23",
                                    "translation": "Ac­tion: Bow, face down­ward, eyes closed, hands on knees."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:24",
                                    "translation": "Re­cite, “God in heav­en, the great­est gift brings no prof­it when left un­used."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:25",
                                    "translation": "I thank you for giv­ing me guid­ance."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:26",
                                    "translation": "I plan to act.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:27",
                                    "translation": "In your own words, tell God how you will act on the guid­ance you have re­ceived."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:28",
                                    "translation": "Con­clude by say­ing, “A­men.”"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "title": "Parables",
            "sections": [
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:1",
                                    "translation": "A young child asks his moth­er, “How is a ba­by made?”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:2",
                                    "translation": "Know­ing the childʼs ru­di­men­ta­ry un­der­stand­ing, she responds,"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "1:3",
                                    "translation": "“The fa­ther places a seed in the motherʼs bel­ly, and it grows in­to a ba­by.”"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:1",
                                    "translation": "A king had two vaults filled with treas­ure, each protected by its own lock."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:2",
                                    "translation": "The king said that who­ev­er opened a vault could have the treas­ure in­side."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:3",
                                    "translation": "Two men sought the treas­ure."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:4",
                                    "translation": "The first man turned the dials of the lock."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:5",
                                    "translation": "He listened care­ful­ly as the mech­a­nism moved in­side."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:6",
                                    "translation": "He no­ticed patterns of sound and vi­bra­tion with­in the dials."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:7",
                                    "translation": "Af­ter many days of per­sis­tence and study, he discovered the com­bi­na­tion and unlocked the vault."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:8",
                                    "translation": "The second man offered to be the kingʼs serv­ant."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:9",
                                    "translation": "He listened care­ful­ly to the kingʼs wishes, and ex­e­cut­ed them faith­ful­ly."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:10",
                                    "translation": "He no­ticed patterns a­mong the kingʼs requests and an­tic­i­pat­ed his wishes."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:11",
                                    "translation": "Af­ter many days of per­sis­tence and ser­vice, the second man asked the king for the com­bi­na­tion and re­ceived it."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "2:13",
                                    "translation": "Both men re­ceived treas­ure."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:1",
                                    "translation": "There were two lakes."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:2",
                                    "translation": "The first lake said to him­self, “I will re­tain eve­ry drop of wa­ter that flows in­to me so that I can be great.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:3",
                                    "translation": "His waters be­came salty and pu­trid."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:4",
                                    "translation": "His fish died and the plants a­long his shore wilted."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:5",
                                    "translation": "An­i­mals and travelers avoided him."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:6",
                                    "translation": "The second lake said to him­self, “I want to pros­per all life on the moun­tain be­low me. I will re­tain a mod­est pool for my­self then al­low each drop to pass down the riv­er to those who might use it.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:7",
                                    "translation": "His waters be­came clean and sweet."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:8",
                                    "translation": "His fish grew large and the plants a­long his shore prospered."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "3:9",
                                    "translation": "An­i­mals and travelers came from afar to en­joy his splen­dor."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "4:1",
                                    "translation": "Rain, fresh­ly fall­en from a cloud, is clean and good to drink."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "4:2",
                                    "translation": "As it flows down mountains and across plains, it be­comes soiled and bit­ter."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "4:3",
                                    "translation": "The sun must ex­tract pure wa­ter from the sea again, leav­ing impurities be­hind, to pro­duce fresh rain once more."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "5:1",
                                    "translation": "A horse, a dol­phin, and an ea­gle each needs dif­fer­ent nour­ish­ment,"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "5:2",
                                    "translation": "and yet each grows to full stat­ure and maj­es­ty."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "6:1",
                                    "translation": "A child asks his moth­er, “Please get me a cup from the top shelf.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "6:2",
                                    "translation": "The moth­er reaches the cup for him."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "6:3",
                                    "translation": "A grown man asks his moth­er, “Please get me a cup from the top shelf.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "6:4",
                                    "translation": "She responds, “You can reach it your­self.”"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "7:1",
                                    "translation": "A man mixed one meas­ure of sug­ar and the juice from one lem­on in­to 2,000 meas­ures of wa­ter,"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "7:2",
                                    "translation": "then served it to his guests as lem­on­ade."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "8:1",
                                    "translation": "A man brought eggs home from the mar­ket."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "8:2",
                                    "translation": "Up­on ar­riv­ing, he an­nounced, “I purchased one doz­en eggs.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "8:3",
                                    "translation": "His wife said, “No you did­nʼt. You bought twelve eggs.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "8:4",
                                    "translation": "A son said, “Youʼre both wrong. There are clear­ly three rows of four eggs each.”"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "8:5",
                                    "translation": "A daugh­ter dis­a­greed, “Not at all. There are four columns of three eggs each.”"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:1",
                                    "translation": "A man de­cid­ed to climb a moun­tain."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:2",
                                    "translation": "He fixed his gaze per­ma­nent­ly on the sum­mit and be­gan hik­ing."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:3",
                                    "translation": "He tripped over un­seen rocks at his feet,"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:4",
                                    "translation": "and was un­a­ble to reach the moun­tain top."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:5",
                                    "translation": "An­oth­er man de­cid­ed to climb the same moun­tain."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:6",
                                    "translation": "He gazed per­ma­nent­ly at his feet, to a­void the errors of the first man, and be­gan hik­ing."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:7",
                                    "translation": "With­out trip­ping once, he wandered off in­to a val­ley,"
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "9:8",
                                    "translation": "and was un­a­ble to reach the moun­tain top."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "paragraphs": [
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "10:1",
                                    "translation": "A man no­ticed jig­saw puz­zle pieces rest­ing on a ta­ble."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "10:2",
                                    "translation": "He wanted to as­sem­ble the puz­zle but pieces were mis­sing, and he did­nʼt know how the puz­zle should look when fin­ished."
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "verses": [
                                {
                                    "ref": "10:3",
                                    "translation": "From time to time he lo­cat­ed mis­sing pieces, but there were still too few to guess how the puz­zle should look."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "10:4",
                                    "translation": "One day he found a sketch of the fin­ished puz­zle."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "10:5",
                                    "translation": "He as­sem­bled the pieces he had, on­ly to re­al­ize that he was still mis­sing some."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "10:6",
                                    "translation": "He con­tin­ued search­ing for mis­sing pieces, plac­ing them where they be­longed."
                                },
                                {
                                    "ref": "10:7",
                                    "translation": "In time, he found all the pieces, and as­sem­bled the puz­zle in­to its beau­ti­ful, com­plete form."
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}