The third installment in the continuing series of Warrior Poet Wisdom.<br><br>Gone are the days of swords and shields, knights and paladins. But warriors still walk among us. Their strength and grace is as effective in dealing with today's challenges as it was in olden times. Their intensity and resolve can be applied to every task in our day to day lives, from work to working out. Their patience and focus are essential to living a stress-free life. Their courage and fortitude allow us to seek success and happiness, not simply wait for it as so many others do. Their selflessness and love reveals to us the greatest purpose in life: service to others. Their balance and peace ensures that nothing will ever shake any of our other virtues. All of these elements combine to form the greatest inspirational tool of all: wisdom.<br><br>Peace + strength + grace + intensity + resolve + patience + fortitude + selflessness + focus + balance + courage + love = wisdom
Grace. How you play the game. We all have the ability to transcend struggles, trials and tribulations. But how many of us can transcend them gracefully? Without complaining. Without being bitter. Without letting those situations turn us into hardened, negative, self-absorbed and selfish people? Grace is defined as elegance. A beauty of form, manner, motion or action. Not a shallow, physical beauty, but a beauty of spirit. A refusal to let the ugliness of the struggles we face blemish the beauty and grace that the Creator has instilled in us. It’s not enough to just survive. It’s not enough to just endure. Warriors survive gracefully. Warriors endure gracefully. Grace. Warriors have it. Warriors lend it. Warriors give it.
