"Painted during Pastor Randy's Advent message on joy. I believe this painting shows two levels of joy: the ephemeral, represented by the blossoms (maybe almond blossoms), and the longstanding, represented by the deer in this high place. The blossoms don't hide the deer here, and the deer is not eating the blossoms, but the two are both visible, valuable, and not impeding one another, just like we get to enjoy both temporal and eternal joys."

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