autor: V\u00edt \u0160majstrla<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The wide, endlessly spilling and shallow river is only imperceptibly flowing forward. There is usually so little water that you can see the bottom, which in some places is swampy. Between the marshes, the water flows somewhat faster in places, only to spill again into the stagnant shallows. The occasional scattered small islands are more comforting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are a large number of boats on the river. People are sitting in them and trying to get their vessels to move forward. Some row, some push off with perches, the strongest wade in front of the boat and pull the boat on ropes. Others sit idle in their boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everywhere in the shallows and marshes around the boats there are other people - alone or in groups, they are squatting on the ground, sometimes walking uncertainly for a short time in a certain direction, but all of them are sinking into the mud and their walking is difficult. They find some rest on one of the islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The people in the boats invite the wading bystanders and people from the islands to join them in the boats, but there are very few responders - they see no reason to get in, as the boat's forward progress is hardly obvious. Still, occasionally someone will step up, but most only for a short time. Few stay in the boats permanently, and even fewer engage in rowing or rescuing bystanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People in the boats are frustrated by the slowness of progress, they suffer from submarine sickness, they argue among themselves, many forget about the people around them and only solve the problems of their fellow passengers. There are fewer and fewer who row steadily, push off perches, pull boats on ropes or rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many passengers in boats look over the edges for running water - but there is little of it, it always flows slowly and only briefly, then spills back into the stagnant shallows. So each boat passes through faster and slower sections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Passengers change from slower to faster boats, but in principle they cannot speed up their progress. Occasionally someone gets off completely and stays on a good-looking island or even in the shallows. The boats are also exposed to all sorts of attacks from the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The passengers in the boats are looking for big really flowing water, but it is not coming. They talk about the countries where the water actually flows, they recall the faster stretches and the floods of long ago, which they know only from literature and stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some, for the sake of remembering and dreaming of great waters, forget to row, push off and tow; others, for the sheer toil of it, forget to look for the flowing water and long for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Explanatory notes<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n River <\/strong>= cesta na\u0161eho \u017eivota tekouc\u00ed do c\u00edle, tedy k setk\u00e1n\u00ed s P\u00e1nem, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Boats <\/strong>= the churches<\/p>\n\n\n\n lid\u00e9 v lo\u010fk\u00e1ch<\/strong> = Christians<\/p>\n\n\n\n People outside <\/strong>= unbelievers<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swamp <\/strong>= this world<\/p>\n\n\n\n Islands <\/strong>= the false certainties and pleasures of this world<\/p>\n\n\n\n Level height <\/strong>= the level of the Holy Spirit<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flood <\/strong>= revival<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Explanation<\/strong>: i kdy\u017e se zd\u00e1, \u017ee lo\u010fky postupuj\u00ed pomalu nebo v\u016fbec, ve skute\u010dnosti jen jejich pohyb je smyslupln\u00fd a jen ony maj\u00ed \u0161anci doplout k c\u00edli. Pasa\u017e\u00e9\u0159i se musej\u00ed vyvarovat obou extr\u00e9m\u016f \u2013 p\u0159estat usilovn\u011b pracovat na pohybu vp\u0159ed a na z\u00e1chran\u011b lidi okolo a p\u0159estat se modlit za n\u00e1r\u016fst hladiny.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" autor: V\u00edt \u0160majstrla \u0160irok\u00e1, do nedohledna rozlit\u00e1 a m\u011blk\u00e1 \u0159eka jen neznateln\u011b plyne kup\u0159edu. Vody je v n\u00ed v\u011bt\u0161inou tak m\u00e1lo, \u017ee je patrn\u00e9 dno, kter\u00e9 m\u00edsty ba\u017einat\u011b vystupuje. Mezi ba\u017einami voda m\u00edsty plyne pon\u011bkud rychleji, aby se vz\u00e1p\u011bt\u00ed op\u011bt rozlila do stojat\u00fdch m\u011bl\u010din. Ut\u011b\u0161en\u011bji p\u016fsob\u00ed ob\u010das roztrou\u0161en\u00e9 drobn\u00e9 ostr\u016fvky. Po \u0159ece pluje velk\u00e9 mno\u017estv\u00ed lodi\u010dek. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyversebible.hiseo.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}