Isaiah 43:1 But now, this is what the Lord says... “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

Perfect love casts out fear and in Christ, we are not condemned any longer. My Joy Sticks tell the story of once being in darkness and facing eternal death, we are made new and transformed by the blood of Christ. Our past is redeemed.

From the bottom up, ammonite fossil, black kyanite, and black pebbles signify death and sin. Round jasper tubes of gray and white rise up to include some reddish pin color. To it's side chunks of leopard skin agate, slate, and a rusty spring further expound on the lost condition. Pebbles, hematite, labradorite, and twisted mangrove root coil up and around an agate geode which has selenite and crystal points spraying out of it. Above the geode is a pyrolucite specimen with fine silver-colored crystals in a fan shape. A heart-shaped rock produces red glass smalti as the redemptive blood of Christ and at the top you have stone smalti, hematite, copper nuggets and a pyrite sun. All this to depict our transformation of being purified and coming forth as gold and complete in Christ.