Enthusiasm is about living life fully. Some people have an innate ability to devote huge amounts of energy in their lives. They want to give as much as possible. They experience everything they do fully and intensely.
They need not necessarily run around all the time, being busybodies or being mindlessly engaged in what they do. But they live fully and they respond keenly to everything life has to offer them. There is something special about this zeal for life. When we meet such people, it inspires us to look at life with similar enthusiasm and engagement.
What they do is not necessarily what we will do. But we may recognize in their lives the energy and enthusiasm which sometimes are also at work in us. It makes sense to reflect on our own lives, to understand what inspires us. As we think about it, it will help us to revisit those places, events or people who energized us in the past, so that we can renew our own energies. When we rediscover this, we need to revisit them to renew our own low resources and failing energy.
It is this deeper reflection, this meditation on the lives of people who inspire and energize us, which can help us to redisover or intensify the full potential in our own lives.
The disciples of Jesus also experienced times of uncertainty and powerlessness – as we know from the two disciples on the way to Emmaus. It was the resurrection, the power of the living Christ which turned their lives around and transformed them. In their proclamation of the resurrected Jesus they then remembered all the things he did and said which inspired them. Those memories made their hearts burn with energy and joy. The life of their friend and master, so full of energy, steered their lives in a completely new direction. They who were the powerless ones, became the poweful witnesses of Christ.
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