<TITLE>21. Par 82-85</TITLE>L-82 So, I was--got behind a tree and just kind of hunkered myself behind a tree like this. (If that's an awful expression.) But, I was standing behind the tree to set my rifle down. The storm went past. And after the storm went past, it turned cool while the storm was going on. And it rained real hard. And after the storm come, I was standing there thinking about God.
I thought, "Oh, God, how wonderful You are." I always see God in nature. That's where you see Him. I thought, "You're so wonderful, Lord. Oh I wished You'd just come down upon me here and let me go home from here." I thought, "Let..."
When I die, say the Indians' prayer over me when I die: "Lord God, great Spirited Father, may He wander down the long game trails and meet His loved ones on that side."
I thought, "Yes, Lord, let me go to a land like this when I leave this world."

L-83 And as I was just standing there; the storm let up. And I was studying real hard, so I raised up, looked around. And I happened to notice, that I looked out across that way towards the west, towards Oregon this way, and the crevice in the mountains, getting late in the afternoon. The sun coming through there like a great big eye, like God: "His eyes on the sparrow."
I thought, "Oh, God, there You are in the sunset."
And then I looked and where the--the rain had froze on the evergreen, there formed a rainbow, coming across the valley. Way up on top of the mountain the old, gray wolf howled. The mate answered it down in the bottom. The old, bull elk begin to bugle. He'd got lost during the time of the storm like that. You talk about deep calling to the deep. Oh, my.
I thought, "Why would I ever have to leave this place? This is home to me. I wish I could stay here forever."

L-84 I felt like Peter did, "Let us build three tabernacles, and just stay here. This is the place to stay."
I heard God in that wolf call, calling to his mate. I thought, "Yes, God, that's You calling to me." I heard the elk the same way, seen the rainbow come across, and I thought, "Rainbow means the covenant. You're Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the both ends of the rainbow, He that was and which come, Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star, the Lily of the valley, the Rose of Sharon." Oh, my, what all He was...
And I thought, "In the rainbow, the covenant, as they seen Him in Revelations 1, there to look upon as a rainbow, as first and last. Benjamin to... And from the Reuben to Benjamin, first and last and all..." It just... Scripture just pouring in, I thought, "Oh, God, You're so great. You're so great."

L-85 I begin stomping my feet up-and-down, and around and around that tree I went, just as hard as I could go, just as fast as I go, screaming, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" Just running like that. I stopped; and I said, "Oh, God, how great You are. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" Oh, I was like the whole Salvation Army up there. I was having a good time. I wasn't paying to attention to what anybody else. Why, I was thirty-five, forty miles from civilization. I was shouting to the Lord.
You don't believe Baptist shout? You ought've heard me. So I was a running around that place, just as hard as I could go, a shouting the praises of God. I thought, "Oh, how wonderful. How I would like to stay here, Lord. Oh, if I never had another campaign, just stay right here with You, 'till You come and get me. How wonderful."


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