Bible inspires winning Oklahoman
Ashley Phillips of Wagoner recently won the American Bible Society’s Share Your Story Now Flips Ahoy contest.
Phillips, 20, was selected at random among contest entrants and she won a new Flip Video Camcorder. Also a $1,000 donation was made in her name to The Light of the Amazon, the Bible Society of Brazil’s charity supported by the American Bible Society.
To participate in the contest, contestants had to log on to SYSN.org and upload an audio, video or written account of how he or she had experienced the Word of God.
Phillips wrote that her heavenly Father’s beautiful words in Song of Solomon erased the hurtful ones her earthly father spoke years ago when he deserted her family.
“I have not seen or heard from my Dad since I was two, and the last words he said to me were forever ringing in my head, ‘I’m leaving because you’re not good enough,’” she wrote.
“My earthly father’s words are not fully gone yet, but they are slowly being rewritten by God’s words from Song of Solomon 4:7 ‘All beautiful you are, my darling; there is no flaw in you.’ At that moment God just breathed restoration in my soul.”
Phillips told the American Bible Society that she plans to work as a missionary after completing college.
Abigal Tanori, the society’s Web community manager, said at the core of the society’s mission is the belief that God speaks to every generation through the Holy Scriptures.
“The goal of SYSN.org is to collect and communicate real stories about how people are experiencing the life-changing message of the Bible, as well as to encourage people to engage the Scriptures and facilitate the development of an online community of Bible advocates,” she said in a news release.
Carla Hinton
Religion Editor
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