<TITLE>13. Par 101-106</TITLE>L-101 I stood there a little bit. And after while I heard something going, "Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter. Chatter, chatter, chatter."
I thought, "What's that?"
I looked around. There was an old blowdown there where a--a former storm had blowed some trees, and there was a little pine squirrel. I don't know whether you know what they are or not. How many knows what a pine squirrel is? He's the noisiest little fellow that there is in the country. And he jumped up on an old tree stump there. And he was just acting like he was about to... He was going to tear me to pieces, just, "Chat, chatter, chatter chatter." He was jumping up-and-down, shaking all over, as hard as he could. Oh, he was going to cut me up.
Well, I thought, "Little fellow, there's no need of you getting all that excited. You're not going to do nothing. And I... Did I... What? Did I scare you?" I thought, "Well, you oughtn't to get scared about that. I was only praising the God that made both of us. See? There's no need of you getting all tore up. I was praising Him, so don't get all excited like that. Well, I was just praising God; you ought to have knowed better than to holler at me like that. Don't interrupt me when I'm shouting like that, because I'm having a good time. Leave me alone." See?

L-104 And so I happened to notice the little fellow would cock his little head sideways and look down into that brush. Well, come to find out that he wasn't barking at me. Out of that brush, through the storm, there'd been a big eagle had been forced down. And he was mashed down into that, blowed down into that blowdown. And the big fellow, that's what the little pine squirrel was all excited about. And he jumped up on a limb.
I thought, "Now, wait a minute here; there's something somewhere. Because I was worshipping God, running around and around this tree here. And I see Him in all these different elements of His and this nature. Now, why would He interrupt me for such a thing as that?" Now, there's an old eagle. I admire the eagle. But I looked at him, and I thought, "Well, what's... Could I see God in him? Now, what would that be?"

L-106 I looked at him. His great, big gray-looking eyes, and he stood there on that limb, looking at me. And he'd look at this squirrel and then look back to me; then look at the squirrel. I said, "I guess you're looking us over." So I thought, "Do you know what? I could shoot you if I wanted to." And I looked at him. And my rifle was setting up against the tree. I said, "Did you know I could shoot you if I wanted to?" Never paid a bit attention to it, just setting there.
I thought, "Oh, that's what God wants me to see, 'Don't be afraid.'" That eagle's brave; he's not afraid of nothing. He wouldn't be ashamed to tell his boss he'd got healed by Divine healing. It didn't bother him. He's a--he's strong. He wouldn't be afraid to testify if he'd received the Holy Ghost. If It was for him, he'd sure testify of It; 'cause he's brave; he's nothing to shame about him.


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