Warriors re-visited…

Welcome to 2026!  What kind of year do you think we’re going to have?  Whatever lies ahead, I think we’re ready for it. 

Back in 2023, I offered this when writing about warriors: 

Fate whispers to the warrior, "You cannot withstand the storm." The warrior whispers back, "I am the storm." 

Unknown Sage 

Girding as a warrior and fighting or calming the storm is one way to do it.  A while back I saw this modification: 

I like the idea of calming myself vs. getting all spun up to fight our daily trails, tribulations, and media headlines.  Too many times I find myself inclined to be the warrior and battle some thing or other only to discover those “storms” aren’t real. They often just exist in my mind (or in AI's mind!).  Eckhart Tolle in his book The Power of Now © offers: 

Nothing real can be threatened.  Nothing unreal exists.  Herein lies the peace of God. 

Speaking of the peace of God, we find the same advice in the Bible: 

Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. 

Proverbs 16:32 

This year I’m going to revisit my warrior mentality.  Yes, we’ll face storms.  Yes, we’ll face adversity.  But everything doesn’t require waging an all-out battle, does it? 

So here’s to our 2026!  May we all calm ourselves and worry less about the storms. 

GAP 

When life gets tough we could get a helmet… or… we could leverage the peace and share the power of a positive perspective.