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.

I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin and I welcome you happy warrior to this show.

It's not that easy being a happy warrior right now, is it?

Many, many people, most of us, I would say, are coping with the coronavirus outbreak as warriors.

Right? We're not folding up our tents and surrendering.

No.

No, we are warriors.

We're doing everything we can to cope and survive and perhaps even to thrive.

To remain happy warriors is even more of a challenge. But I think it helps to remember that,

first of all, happiness is a decision we make. It's not contingent on external circumstances at all. An older woman I met in New York a few years ago had survived the Nazi concentration camps

during World War II, and she was a young girl. She was less than 10 years old when she was in the

camp, when she was taken to the camp with her mother. Her mother obviously did not make it.

And I asked her to tell me a little bit about it.

And while I heard her say was really rather remarkable,

she said that her mother said that even in these conditions,

which we have never been able to imagine, nothing in our previous lives

could in any way have prepared us for the horror and barbarism that we witness each and every day

in these camps. But even here, our purpose is to be happy and to produce and contribute to the happiness of other

people.

And she said, Mommy, I'm eight years old.

What can I do?

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