Mercy's Embrace - center 11x14 mat Artist_Jeffery R Pugh Young people today face immense

Young people today face immense feelings of isolation and failure

Birmingham Temple at an angle

Yet the world is scornful and says that I am flawed

Jesus facing inside of tomb after being resurrected

Mercy's Embrace - center 11x14 mat Artist_Jeffery R Pugh Young people today face immenseAbout this Image: While we often mark ourselves and others within the binary language of saint and sinner, good and bad, member and nonmember, Christ cares for us equally. In Mercys Embrace, Nader depicts Christ holding two different sheep, representing the variety of Gods children, from different walks in life, and internally as we range from saint to sinner, explained Nader. As religious symbolism, the lilies represent the Resurrection of Jesus