{"id":20145,"date":"2026-06-25T21:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belovedgallery.org\/?p=20145"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:40:25","slug":"iam_beloved-tiffany-joy-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belovedgallery.org\/es\/iam_beloved-tiffany-joy-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#iam_beloved: Tiffany Joy Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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#iam_beloved: Tiffany Joy<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Some encounters with art begin in childhood and never let go. Tiffany Joy first saw Akiane Kramarik\u2019s <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i> as a little girl, watching another child her own age share the painting on television. Decades later, in one of the hardest seasons of her life, she walked into Bel\u00f3ved Gallery and found that same face waiting for her. In our latest #iam_beloved story of faith, Tiffany shares how a painting she never forgot met her exactly when she needed it. Watch her story below, then read it in her own words.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cI learned that I was God\u2019s beloved through a lot of trial and error. Something that took me a long time to learn is that I could not earn His love.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tiffany Joy is a filmmaker who grew up surrounded by art. As a girl, she watched a young Akiane Kramarik share <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i> on television, and the image stayed with her in a way no other depiction of Jesus had \u2014 personal rather than distant. Years later she moved to Austin, Texas, following a sense of calling into a season of real hardship, only to discover that the painting she had loved since childhood was an hour away in Marble Falls. At Bel\u00f3ved Gallery she felt met, and her #iam_beloved story is about learning, through loss and grace, that she is God\u2019s beloved and could never earn His love.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I first saw the <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i> image as a little girl, seeing someone on TV who was about my age, and she was showing her painting of Jesus. I now know that that was on the Oprah Winfrey show. I was watching it at my grandmother\u2019s. I\u2019m also an artist, and my mom\u2019s an artist, so I grew up in that sort of environment of art appreciation, learning to paint and draw at an early age. So when I saw this other little girl on TV who was so talented, it made me very excited. It made me realize that anything was possible, even for really young children.<\/span><\/p>

Appreciating art history, and growing up in the art environment with a lot of family in the Roman Catholic belief, I was exposed to a lot of liturgical artwork \u2014 of angels, of Jesus, of Mary \u2014 and all of it was beautiful. But even as a little girl, I knew there was something different about the <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i> painting. There was a feeling of close connection that I didn\u2019t necessarily feel with the other paintings of Jesus I had encountered. With those, there was almost a feeling of distance, like He was untouchable. And that was not the Jesus I knew as a child. I knew Jesus on a much more personal level. To see, at that age, a painting that depicted Jesus more the way I saw Him \u2014 and to know there was a little girl my age who also experienced that \u2014 was incredible.<\/span><\/p>

Years later, my grandmother was gifted a print of the <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i>, and she hung it in her home. It was always a very special centerpiece. The <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i> painting was something I never let go of, even into adulthood. And then when I moved to Austin, Texas, I had no idea that the painting I\u2019d seen since I was a child was only an hour away, in Marble Falls. I\u2019m a filmmaker, and I had moved to Austin specifically because I felt God was calling me here. I didn\u2019t have anyone here. I didn\u2019t have a job lined up. I was experiencing different hardships in life at that time, and it just felt like the whole world was pulling out from under my feet.<\/span><\/p>

To me, it didn\u2019t really make sense to move to Austin. But He made everything available. He made housing available. He started connecting me with a church. Even after I was here, though, the hardships continued. I was here only a week, and two of my family members passed away. And I said, \u201cGod, You told me to come here to Austin. I don\u2019t understand why You\u2019re not meeting me here. I feel like You sent me out on this voyage and left me floating.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

I came to the gallery. I was particularly connected to the missing years and dreams. I think it\u2019s a precious thing to be able to see Jesus in His early years \u2014 having all of this vast knowledge of past, present, and future, the world around Him, just as a teenager. That\u2019s a part of His life none of us really consider. And to know that He was a human being \u2014 words can\u2019t communicate it. Art itself is storytelling. Each painting tells a story. Jesus chose to teach through stories.<\/span><\/p>

I felt Jesus\u2019s presence when I came into the gallery. In that moment, I saw Him. I knew what it looked like, and I knew it felt personal, but I did not realize how much it would impact me. I don\u2019t idolize the painting, but I do feel like Jesus\u2019s presence follows it. I\u2019m asking, \u201cWhere are You?\u201d And then \u2014 You\u2019re here. Shortly after that, doors started opening up to jobs. Healing started taking place in the areas of my life where I\u2019d been experiencing hardship. Then some other hardships came up, but in the midst of it, I saw Him, and I realized: You are here, and You have met me here.<\/span><\/p>

I learned that I was God\u2019s beloved through a lot of trial and error. I never doubted His power and His grace, but something that took me a long time to learn is that I could not earn His love. To see the ways in which He\u2019s shown His love to me, even in the hardships \u2014 the way He\u2019s come through \u2014 was a really incredible experience. I feel like I would not have seen His grace and understood His love to the fullness had I not experienced those hardships.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some encounters with art begin in childhood and never let go. Tiffany Joy first saw Akiane Kramarik\u2019s *Prince of Peace* as a little girl, and decades later, during one of the hardest seasons of her life, she walked into Bel\u00f3ved Gallery and found that same face waiting for her. In our latest #iam_beloved story, Tiffany shares how a painting she never forgot met her exactly when she needed it. \u201cI learned that I was God\u2019s beloved through a lot of trial and error. Something that took me a long time to learn is that I could not earn His love.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t