Sharing Enthusiasm

For those who know me, selling my new Jesus-focussed art books have become a bit of a running joke which, in truth, I have played up to. It's true that I keep mentioning the "Jesus as AI Sees Him" series whenever I get the chance. This is not commercially driven (I don't think that I have made a penny of profit on them yet). It is rather that I am genuinely excited about them. I am a little saddened that real enthusiasm invites a level of suspicion and cynicism. I wondered if that was a recent phenomenon (fuelled by jadedness at a market-driven, consumeristic capitalist culture). On further refleciton, I don't think that it is.

I began thinking briefly about John 9 and Jesus healing the man born blind. In that story, the man goes on a remarkable journey of discovery as the scenes in that chapter unfold. As his enthusiasm about his experience of Jesus magnified, the oppostiiton and cynicism grew to match. How can one share something enthusiastically in a world where the idiom persisits that things might be "too good to be true".

Moving forward, I am going to do two things. Firstly, I am going to share my video here of me waxing lyrical about my art books. Hopefully, that will help me get some of it out of my system. Secondly, I am going to dip back into that John 9 story and connect with someone else who wanted to share enthusiastically about something better than even my Jesus art books - the man himself.

Video about my art books

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P.S. I preached on John 9 about 6 years ago when I was thinner and had a little more hair!

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