<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Some time ago, I was up in the mountains, and I was hunting elk. And I... Storming. And just I got behind a tree until the storm was over. When the storm left, why the evergreens had frozen from the water that was falling. It was early in the fall, middle of October, in Colorado. And then, after that happened, I was standing behind a tree watching. And I noticed the sun peep out in the... through the crevices of the rocks way over here towards California.
And, you know, God's just so everywhere, you can see Him if you'll just get Him on the inside of you. That's what makes it so hard for people to see and understand God, because He's not in their heart. If God is in the heart, He--He shows you. He--He shows Himself to you. And I seen the sun set, and there was God in the sunset. And then I...
As you know, my people are Irish, except on my mother's side. My mother's mother come from the--from the reservations, the Cherokee reservation. And so, I love the outdoors so much, just enough to make me like the outdoors and woods. My conversion never took it out of me, and I'm glad.

L-6 And then, I noticed, while I was standing there in the Presence of God, about forty miles from human beings, as far as I knew. It was at least forty miles to a ranch. And then, I noticed, the sun caused a rainbow as it struck across those evergreens froze over. Now, God is in the rainbow. He made a covenant--the rainbow. And then, Revelations 1, He--when John saw Him, He had the rainbow, and was to look upon as jasper and sardis stones: Benjamin, Reuben, first till last, He which was, which is, and shall come, so forth.
And then, the old male elk begin to bugle. He got lost from the herd during the storm. There was God in that bugle. And a wolf got to howling. And the mate answered it the bottom of the hill. There's God in the wolf. Everywhere you look, you can see God.

L-7 And while I was standing there, I noticed a little pine squirrel. I know you know what they are, little bitty fussy thing, just all fuss is about all there is to them. And he had jumped up on a little stump, and he was just a cutting him a great noise. Like, he's a... almost a blue coat policeman of the woods, makes so much fuss. And he's too big to do anything, he's just so long, a little bitty guy. And so he was just a carrying on. I wondered, "What's you so excited about, little fellow, because I'd got real happy standing here. I set my gun against the tree, and run around and around and around the tree shouting.
Now, you all don't believe that Baptists shout; I--I was shouting. Of course, I--I am a Baptist, but I'm a Pentecostal Baptist, one with the Holy Ghost. And so, then while I was carrying on there, if somebody had been in the woods, they'd thought they'd had a maniac out there. Around and around that tree just screaming to the top...

L-8 Well, I was about to an explode. I had to do something. Pop off a little steam somewhere. Did you ever get so full you had to say something. That's all, you just got to do it. As David said, "My cup runneth over," just filled up.
And I thought, "Well little fellow, I--I'm... What's you so excited about the way I'm acting. If you loved your Creator the way I did, you'd be doing the same thing. So..." And I was just talking to him.
But I noticed the little guy wasn't watching me. He cocked his little head and looked down like that, in an old blow down where the storms, previous storms had blowed the tree laps together.
And during the time of the hard blowing, a eagle had been forced down into this blow down. And he was watching that eagle, great big brown eagle, gray eyed. And this big eagle jumped up on the limb. And I said, "Well now, looky here. God, why did You stop me from shouting? I seen the sunset, call of the wolf. I hear Him in the call of the elk, see Him in nature; everywhere around just God. It's good to be here. We could build three tabernacles. But why was it You made that little squirrel carry on like that so I'd see that eagle?"


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