The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world really works and I know that you fall into

one of three categories either you're a happy warrior or you are a happy warrior in training

or you've never heard of the term happy warrior because to know what a

happy warrior is is only one short step away from wanting to be one as i often tell you, the phrase, a happy warrior, I learnt from the English poet William Wordsworth,

and some of the lines of his poem about the happy warrior sound like this.

Who is the happy warrior?

Who is he that every man in arms should wish to be?

It is the generous spirit who finds comfort in himself and in his cause, and while the mortal

mist is gathering draws his breath in confidence of heaven's applause. This is the happy warrior. This is he that every man in arms

should wish to be. And there's another poem by a poet called William Ernest Henley, and his poem is called

Invictus. And the last lines of Invictus read, I am the master of my fate.

I am the captain of my soul.

And I love that line because we happy warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter

of life.

And so it is my honor to be your rabbi. We're all happy warriors, whether man or woman,

because to live productively, you have to fight every day against the force of entropy, if nothing else.

That is the aspect of reality, which means that things deteriorate.

If nothing else, you fight to maintain your possessions. You fight to build and maintain your

family and your money, your body and your business, profession or career. God created a world in which chaos and disorder rules.

That, by the way, is the meaning of the second verse of the Bible.

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