The Spiritual Warrior has enthusiasm for all things. When you open to the Spirit, Its energy pours through you, and you regain the wonder and awe of life.

Does the enthusiasm ever wane and weaken? Yes. True enthusiasm means that you are participating with an energy that comes from God. On this planet of limitations, if you don't continually reconnect to the source -- Spirit -- the energy can start to dissipate and possibly disappear. So it is important that you take time for yourself: for yourself, your Soul, which is part of the Divine. Take time to reconnect and reawaken so Spirit can once again manifest to the mind, the emotions, the body, and right out again, riding on that enthusiasm.

There is one mind, the mind of God. There is one consciousness, God consciousness. All else are tributaries of the One. If you can get on a tributary leading back to God, you can follow it back into the mainstream of God's energy.

Prayer Lord God, once again we give thanks for the opportunity to be with You. We ask that You bring us forward from whatever we have chosen that would keep us lagging or restricted from knowing You. Lift us from our pretenses and falsehoods that we have placed before ourselves as judgments and false knowledge. We ask that You take away the illusion and that You may assist us, regardless of what we have done. We come to You in grace, to the door of forgiveness. Restore our joy and courage, that we can go through each day and whatever meets us, knowing the blessings of each moment and being glad in what we behold as eternal truth. We bring our enthusiasm to do the best we can. We trust that You are always with us and that You have prepared the way. There is nothing against us that will ever last. Whatever negativity we find shall not prevail. We are resurrected in the Christ. The Holy Spirit is our companion. You bring the Lord's hand to touch us, strength to lift us, vision to look upon Your face, Light to let us see the truth, and wisdom to know that Your will is done. And we find everlasting peace in Your loving embrace. Baruch Bashan.

Have you ever noticed that happy people are very spontaneous? They are open to participate. They are willing to be foolish if that brings happiness. They are willing to dance even if they don't know the steps or even if they don't have feet. They are willing to sing when they don't know how to hold the tune or remember the words. They become involved in joy regardless of what people, including themselves, think about it. They are free to laugh and laugh freely. Maybe happy people are considered nuts, but they are happy nuts. What better choice do you really have than to be happy? Be happy.

If you withdraw your loving, then you're not in a state of acceptance. If you go into acceptance, you go into serving. If you do cooperation -- you're serving. If you're dedicated to a person's well being -- you are serving. The observable result of that will be God's energy: enthusiasm. In that state, things don't go neutral. They go into kidding and joking and laughing.

Keep enthusiasm present in all your activities.

God's Spirit will function on love, on acceptance, on persistence, and on enthusiasm, joy, and elation.

If you strive to have a pleasant disposition while you're doing whatever you're doing in the world, there is a greater tendency for your Soul, which is so perfect and so loving, to radiate out of your pleasant disposition. A truly pleasant disposition is loving, compassionate, and empathetic, with the ability to know what's going on in the world because it is not run by the ego. If you take that same pleasantness back inside you, you live with an abundance of enthusiasm that overflows to others. Now, that is truly helping the planet.

Do everything with your attention on getting a smile on your face and love in your eyes.