Rod Blagojevich

Imagining in my mind. My wife comforting my daughters as if I had died because I kind of did. I was gone. They were going to grow up without their father. So all of that's going through my mind. And then I reached for the Bible that my wife gave me to leave for prison, to take with me to prison. They don't let you bring anything else in, but they'll let you bring the Bible in.

I've always had a belief in God. I always believed in prayer. I was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Christian church. But I never read the Bible. I was just so busy trying to get ahead in life. You know, I had to go out and make campaign promises, give speeches, kiss babies, shake hands, raise money. I tried Genesis. I get stuck in Genesis. So-and-so's beginning so-and-so.

I've always had a belief in God. I always believed in prayer. I was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Christian church. But I never read the Bible. I was just so busy trying to get ahead in life. You know, I had to go out and make campaign promises, give speeches, kiss babies, shake hands, raise money. I tried Genesis. I get stuck in Genesis. So-and-so's beginning so-and-so.

I've always had a belief in God. I always believed in prayer. I was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Christian church. But I never read the Bible. I was just so busy trying to get ahead in life. You know, I had to go out and make campaign promises, give speeches, kiss babies, shake hands, raise money. I tried Genesis. I get stuck in Genesis. So-and-so's beginning so-and-so.

I'll put this on the side. I can't. Now suddenly here I am in this deep fucking dark valley and I'm facing 14 years of this. I'm so alone. I'm not going to fuck around with Genesis or Deuteronomy or Leviticus or any of that stuff. I'm going to something right away that might give me some hope. And I went to the 23rd Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

I'll put this on the side. I can't. Now suddenly here I am in this deep fucking dark valley and I'm facing 14 years of this. I'm so alone. I'm not going to fuck around with Genesis or Deuteronomy or Leviticus or any of that stuff. I'm going to something right away that might give me some hope. And I went to the 23rd Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

I'll put this on the side. I can't. Now suddenly here I am in this deep fucking dark valley and I'm facing 14 years of this. I'm so alone. I'm not going to fuck around with Genesis or Deuteronomy or Leviticus or any of that stuff. I'm going to something right away that might give me some hope. And I went to the 23rd Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

It makes me lie down in green pastures. And then I kept reading the Psalms. And I know the story of David. And I associate myself with him. I know I'll get criticized and maligned by people in the media for saying I'm like David. I'm not saying I'm not. I'm not saying I am.

It makes me lie down in green pastures. And then I kept reading the Psalms. And I know the story of David. And I associate myself with him. I know I'll get criticized and maligned by people in the media for saying I'm like David. I'm not saying I'm not. I'm not saying I am.

It makes me lie down in green pastures. And then I kept reading the Psalms. And I know the story of David. And I associate myself with him. I know I'll get criticized and maligned by people in the media for saying I'm like David. I'm not saying I'm not. I'm not saying I am.

I'm simply saying I looked at his example and I got strength from that because he was being chased by Saul and he's in the caves for like 11 years or chasing him. I'm thinking he endured that. Maybe there's hope. And I'd read his Psalms because they're just prayers to God is what they are from him. And they were helpful to me.

I'm simply saying I looked at his example and I got strength from that because he was being chased by Saul and he's in the caves for like 11 years or chasing him. I'm thinking he endured that. Maybe there's hope. And I'd read his Psalms because they're just prayers to God is what they are from him. And they were helpful to me.

I'm simply saying I looked at his example and I got strength from that because he was being chased by Saul and he's in the caves for like 11 years or chasing him. I'm thinking he endured that. Maybe there's hope. And I'd read his Psalms because they're just prayers to God is what they are from him. And they were helpful to me.

So I kept reading and I went to Isaiah and the fiery furnace of affliction and how... Adversity in hard times is God's way of testing us. It can make us stronger and better. We learned through those hard lessons the fiery, you know, through the fire of hard times. And, of course, then eventually the Gospels. And the best story of all, in my mind, as a Christian, is the story of Jesus.

So I kept reading and I went to Isaiah and the fiery furnace of affliction and how... Adversity in hard times is God's way of testing us. It can make us stronger and better. We learned through those hard lessons the fiery, you know, through the fire of hard times. And, of course, then eventually the Gospels. And the best story of all, in my mind, as a Christian, is the story of Jesus.

So I kept reading and I went to Isaiah and the fiery furnace of affliction and how... Adversity in hard times is God's way of testing us. It can make us stronger and better. We learned through those hard lessons the fiery, you know, through the fire of hard times. And, of course, then eventually the Gospels. And the best story of all, in my mind, as a Christian, is the story of Jesus.

And there he is in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he's saying to God, because he's so afraid, because he knows what's coming, what they're going to do to him. And he says, oh, Father, please lift this cup from me. I mean, I get choked up just thinking about this. And he says, but no, God, no, Father, not my will, your will.

And there he is in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he's saying to God, because he's so afraid, because he knows what's coming, what they're going to do to him. And he says, oh, Father, please lift this cup from me. I mean, I get choked up just thinking about this. And he says, but no, God, no, Father, not my will, your will.

And there he is in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he's saying to God, because he's so afraid, because he knows what's coming, what they're going to do to him. And he says, oh, Father, please lift this cup from me. I mean, I get choked up just thinking about this. And he says, but no, God, no, Father, not my will, your will.

And then he steals himself for what he's got to face, takes on all the suffering that he goes through and the humiliation, everything else. So I read it every day for 2,896 days. And I know it in a way I never knew it before. And I love it. And it brought me so much closer to God.