if it is a look at motivation: what reason do we have to befriend (or even love) an enemy? enemies are expendable (and easy to trade in for a newer or different model)… and well, they are enemies, for good reason! does not feel too unnatural, does it? –and even if it does, i am not terribly motivated (for other reasons) to not let it go. where is my motivation..or rather, whom? the judge…fear of inhibiting my relationship (or inhibiting my righteousness?–if that fits someone.)

upon first reading that little “court scenario” i am automatically assuming that the “You” is in the right… what if the “You” is not in the right? and the Judge is being fair? the use of “enemies” is a perception not made by the Judge but by the “You”? perhaps ‘enemies’ is merely those with whom a barrier has been made (through an action) and ‘friends’ is without said barrier.

and then i consider “you will not leave there until you have paid everything you owe.” –everything you owe… take your humility now, in the presence of ‘the enemy’, or take it later when the impossibility seems greater?..

anywho… am not readily recalling “the shrewd manager” there are a few i tend to confuse..