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9. We see the stoplight and we plan to stop, but it could turn green before we get there so why wear out the brake pads unnecessarily? And, yes, it’s important that we get to the next light before everyone else…WE WIN…everything is a competition to us.

13. We flex in the mirror to make you feel safe.

18. We are not “yelling at the TV,” we are interceding for the quarterback.

This is a Bishop Nikolai’s prayer while he was being tortured by the Nazis. He was arrested for speaking out against the Nazi’s in World War II and they kept him in the Dachau concentration camp, where he became very sick and frail and was near death when the U.S. forces finally overcame the Nazi’s and liberated Dachau in 1945.

Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them Enemies have driven me into Your embrace more than friends have Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world Enemies have made me a stranger in worldly realms and an extraneous inhabitant of the world Just as a hunted animal finds safer shelter than an unhunted animal does so have I, persecuted by enemies, found the safest sanctuary having hidden myself beneath Your tabernacle where neither friends nor enemies can slay my soul

Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them They, rather than I, have confessed my sins before the world They have scolded me, whenever I have flattered myself

Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them Whenever I have wanted to lead people, they have shoved me into the background Whenever I have rushed to enrich myself, they have prevented me with an iron hand Whenever I have tried to build a home for a long and tranquil life they have demolished it and driven me out Truly, enemies have cut me loose from the world and have stretched out my hands to the hem of Your garment

Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them So that my fleeing to You may have no return So that all my hope in people may be scattered like cobwebs So that absolute serenity may begin to reign in my soul So that my heart may become the grave of my two evil twins: arrogance and anger So that I might amass all my treasure in heaven Ah, so that I may for once be freed from self-deception, which has entangled me in the dreadful web of illusory life Enemies have taught me to know what hardly anyone knows that we have no enemies in the world except ourselves

It is truly difficult for me to say who has done me more good and who has done me more evil in the world: friends or enemies Therefore bless, O Lord, both my friends and my enemies Slaves curse their enemies, for they do not understand But sons and daughters bless them, for they understand For they know that their enemies cannot touch their life Therefore they freely step among their enemies, and pray to God for them