If your New Year's Resolutions included bettering yourself, then you might want to check out Erwin Raphael McManus' The Way of the Warrior. This book aims to help readers find their own inner peace so that they can go out in the world and fight the good fight. There are eight warrior "codes", and each chapter of the book explains what each code is and how to attain it. (Examples include "finds honor in service" and "becomes one with all things".) And because McManus is a pastor at California's MOSAIC church movement, the book comes at this whole warrior thing from a Christian perspective.I thought there were a lot of good points in the book, and my copy is pretty dog-eared. In the chapter about owning your defeat, McManus tells the Bible story of the talents and points out "that we are responsible for far more than what we have been given; we are responsible for what could have been done with all that we have been entrusted with" (114).
And the chapter on harnessing your strength definitely spoke to this year's Mothers of Preschoolers theme of finding your fire. As McManus writes, "You are born a coal; you must become a fire. . . To find the fire that burns within you is central to the way of the warrior (127).
Even with all of my dog-eared pages, I didn't think the book was very coherently put together. Within each chapter, I felt like the author was getting a little off-topic or maybe just not making easy-to-understand connections between his thoughts. But maybe I needed a book like this to challenge me. Maybe this is a book that you read once, soak in whatever you can on the first read-through, and then go back and read it again.
The Way of the Warrior is published by Waterbrook/Multnomah and will be available on bookstore shelves February 26, 2019. I received a free review copy through the Waterbrook/Multnomah launch campaign for my honest opinion.
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