A Warrior's Sacrifice

Gentlemen,

Quote:

“Every man is divided against himself who does not make his life conform to his words.” - Noah Huisman

Takeaway:

What is more important than our word? In other words, our commitment to truth - speaking it, living it, believing it.

If the words we speak are misaligned with the actions we live, we know ourselves to be fraudulent, which is to say that we don’t know ourselves at all.

This sense of falsehood pervades our entire lives as an underlying sense of anxiety and fear.

Speaking Truth and living the same Truth leads to confidence, confidence to conviction, conviction to fulfillment.

May our words be aligned with our actions in every way.

Lesson from The Tyro Experience 72 with Dakota Meyer:

Last week I spoke with United States Marine veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer. I learned many things from him, but no lessons more profound than the eternal nature of sacrifice.

Dakota’s teammates sacrificed their lives for each other and for us. Dakota sacrificed nearly the same, but God withheld him from the pearly gates, despite Dakota acting in the face of “almost certain death.”

He is forever indebted to his teammates; we are forever indebted to them all.

They now lay peacefully in the ground that we walk upon and the ground they fought so valiantly to maintain the sovereignty of.

There is no greater sacrfice than this. They carried their crosses so that we may attempt to carry ours.

Their sacrifice is the pinnacle of humanity. There is no greater act.

God bless them and their warrior comrades that sacrificed the same.

God bless America.

Closing:

I will do my best to walk with them in mind this week. To walk in such a way as to honor their sacrifice. May we all do the same that their sacrifice may not be in vain due to our lack of appreciation for it or our unwillingness to live a life worthy of it.

Stand firm,

Nolan