JOY~LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH  
     
         The summer of 2014 I had the JOY of getting to go to Heidi Bakers IRIS base in Mozambique!!  
GOD ABSOLUTELY AMAZED me as I watched and experienced
 His JOY, H
is PROVISION, 
His COMPASSION, 
His GENTLENESS, 
and
His UNFAILING LOVE 
in the midst of what we westerners would view as devastation, hopelessness and poverty.
As I pondered and experienced all these things I began to "see" in my sanctified imagination this LION that carried JOY ! 
His mane looked, moved and sounded like the adorned dreadlocks of the people of this place!       
              I began to paint…………THIS BEAUTIFUL OUT OF THE BOX IMAGE OF THE LION OF JUDAH. THE ONE THAT IN REVELATION JOHNth apostle WRITES WHAT HE HEARD AND SAW AS THE LION OF JUDAH CAME ON THE SCENE:
“DO NOT WEEP!! THE LION OF JUDAH HAS TRIUMPHED!” ( Revelation 5:5)
Be EMBRACED IN HIS JOY AND THE TENDER, GENTLE, COMPASSION and THE WARMTH OF HIS GAZE!!