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call to battle.

everything good about you is a call to battle. how will you answer? will you rise up to protect, serve and honor yourself? or will you join with the other side as they demean, deny, denigrate, diminish, extract and siphon your gifts?

a soldier emerges into consciousness at the front of the war and not from the sidelines. the battle often finds him far from home and fighting now for his life. but from which side?

the war continues until we understand both campaigns as necessary to forge the warrior inside. that’s when the fighting ends. the smoke clears and you begin to move through life as a dance, no longer an offensive. the people around you are brothers-in-arms. they made you who you are: who you were always meant to be, the version your soul can now recognize.

the ones who fed you lies and the ones who shared their rations were all the same. they kept the real you alive. and now you can bury your dead. go to the temple to be cleansed of the war. allow your daily devotions to deepen your breath. return to village life. and now, when people come to you, ask if they, too, have returned as heroes of war. “in the battle against yourself, did you win?” understand that not every struggle ends. if the conflict is active, do they call out to you as captives? as prisoners of war? do you risk conscription into the fray? or will you allow each man to prove his own valor?