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This is the fifteenth & penultimate scene in my series of The Christian journey illustrations & the third one set in autumn, which represents older age in the man’s life (he is wearing a green jacket & jeans); the so-called “twilight years”, inevitably moving towards physical death… and what lies beyond!

The title “Last minute decisions” refers to the man’s thought process just before she physically dies of old age. The images swimming about in the air represent his thoughts. To the left of the man we can see his memories & his recollections of some aspects of his life: family, relationship events, health, money, a car, travel, etc. There are regrets & concerns mixed among them too: perhaps he has harboured worries about how to pay his mortgage in the past; perhaps he & his family have had good & bad times, laughter and tears; perhaps illness has caused him worry & concern. Perhaps a lack of money has been a trouble in his past. Going down towards the whirlpool we can see her anxieties his, fears & dreads: hospital, ill health & death.

In other scene in this series I have explained that God always gives us choices about which direction we choose to go. Even in the last moments of life I believe we still have a choice to make: to go on & be with God in heaven, or else to go our way, which leads to spiritual death; which we call hell. These two opposite directions are illustrated in my picture by the glowing steps of light that lead to a doorway in the sky (representing heaven) and the floating stone steps that lead down into the watery whirlpool (representing hell). Notice there are red eyes in the dark depths of the whirlpool!

I decided to completely change the design of this scene.