I originally had this image come to mind while I was reading the Bible, the passage where Jacob is speaking a blessing over his sons before he dies. When he is speaking to Naphtali, he says "You are like a doe set free"...Gen 49:21 I just had to sit back and sigh (kind of like a selah). What a beautiful feeling, to be set free! I saw this image of a doe springing forth from the darkness that had her confused and lost and into the light of God's face. What a prophetic picture of myself at this time. A form of darkness and confusion had clouded my vision and had me living powerless and in anxiety. I HAD to paint this image, if only for myself...to say, I am Free!! Remember!
Like King Solomon the lover, "leaping and bounding over the hills..." Song of Songs 2:8
Like "calves released from a stall" Mal 4:2
or, "...then will the lame leap like a deer" Isa 35:6
"As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs after You" psalm 42:1
This is me...this is you. May this image bring you freedom.
