How is your attitude? Meditation for 5/5/14

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 “Enthusiasm is the most beautiful thing on earth.”  – Christian Morgenstern

“The world belongs to the energetic.”  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

♫ ♪ “You got to have faith…”   - George Michael

     To be cheerful is to cause happiness by nature or presence, to be noticeably optimistic and happy.  Kicking up cheerfulness a couple notches we find enthusiasm.  To be enthusiastic is to display intense enjoyment, eagerness and interest, to show great excitement and zeal.  The root of the word is the Greek “En Theos,” meaning to be inspired by God or “in God.”  And is not enthusiasm simply faith in motion?    To have zeal about anything we must be beyond belief, we have to be past trust – we have to be at that point of full faith to where we do not even have to think about the legitimacy of and the benefit of the stretch of path we are vigorously walking.  And talk about contagious – when someone else is in complete faith and filled with the resultant positive spiritual energy that comes from their enthusiasm, who can resist?

     But how do we obtain such intense faith in a given path?  First curiosity and interest must develop, because without the desire to learn we certainly will not obtain the knowledge we need to be excited about anything.  Acting on this desire brings the knowledge itself, which requires both inquiry and putting ourselves out there to get experience.  After we have put ourselves “on the line” we can find ourselves getting the guidance we need to obtain good results, which brings faith in what we are going about.  Only after we have full confidence in the validity of the direction we are to go do we find the deep commitment to the undertaking itself.   And here we find the true fuel of life – exuberance, enthusiasm, zeal – that state of being “En Theos,” gratefully and purposefully striding through life.  And it all starts with finding faith – which takes purposeful and guided action.  What better goal can we strive for today?

Today, may I stride purposefully.    

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