You're listening to Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand.

The Blaze Radio Network.

On demand.

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

This is Rabbi Daniel Abin, on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network. Sail away?

No, no, don't sail away.

Throw yourself into the battle.

Welcome, all you happy warriors, eager devotees of the

Rabbi Daniel Lapin show. Why do I call you happy warriors? Well, because to live productively,

you have to fight every day. Against the force of entropy, if nothing else.

You fight to maintain your possessions.

You fight to build and maintain your family, your business, profession, career.

Life is a fight.

And that is a good thing.

To stop fighting, to stop seeking and striving, is to lay yourself down to die.

And I call you not just warriors, but happy warriors. Because to throw yourself into the fight

for eight or ten hours a day, six days a week,

well, that's one thing.

But to do all that with a debonair smile on your face and a jaunty pace to your stride,

to do all that while generating an irrepressible surge of happiness welling

up inside your soul, well, that means that you must be spiritually grounded in everything

that is life-affirming. You are probably devoted to your faith, certainly to your family, your finances, your friends,

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