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Inspirational Christian Stories
by Phillips


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 Apricot Miracle
 Our Gracious God
 Celebrate
 Healing
 Don't be anxious
 Prepare to be amazed
 Loved - Never forgotten
 The Foggy Photo
 Perfect Timing and Provision
 Just around the corner
 Hide and Seek
 God Speaks
 Miracle
 How will God provide?
 Guiding a persons thoughts
 Affluent: Grafted in
 The Redemptive Pattern
 I will carry you
 Valley of Achor
 Desires of your heart
  Drive Safely
 The name above all names
 Sword of the Spirit
 Land Of Plenty
 "Come"
 Stolen
 Children
 You are my witnesses
 New Life
 Moshia, Or
 Long life
 Wellbeing
 Love one another
 Travelling

 Bio summary

Loved - Never Forgotten

2005

Australia has some unusual juxtapositioning of things. After taking photos of rocks, I used Terra Painter to create a surface map with a lot of flat areas. I opened it up in Terragen and did some sculpting to get the rocks where I wanted them with the sun rays shining down. I used one of the rock photos as a surface texture and sat in church wondering and praying about what to put in the spotlight. I thought a flower might work. As I drove home I saw a single red flower growing on the side of the road. I went home and got my digital camera. I took a number of shots and then moved the grass away from the base. As I did the petals fell off. The timing was perfect. I had captured the flower just in time. A wild poppy fitted in perfectly with what I wanted to say in this image. I took the rendered image into Photoshop and joined 3 photos so as not to have any foreshortening in the flower stem.

In 2006 the image won "The peoples choice award" in the “Art Views in the Hills” exhibition in Wanniassa (view), even though it was hung in one of the least visible places, well below eye level. I was surprised for I thought that people might not even notice it where it was hung. It was a bit like the poppy in the image standing alone in a desert like place. But God saw it. As the spotlight shone down on the flower, so the spotlight shone on my art work, singling it out. It was noticed and honored. It was not forgotten. It reminded me of the image I had made called “Something beautiful for God” (view).

In 2008, the very day I was editing the section in my autobiography about how I created Loved - Never Forgotten, I had to walk to visit the doctor because our car had been stolen, and beside the footpath where I was sure to see it, was a single red poppy. I had never seen one growing beside this path before! There were no others poppies growing anywhere along this road. This was the first. It was the same type as the one I had seen and captured for my art work, only this one looked stronger and had a second bud. I went back later in the day with my camera but the petals had already fallen off. The timing was miraculous. For it to be in full bloom as I was passing by, on the day I was editing this part of my book, was amazing.