<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 I looked at him and... He's--he's got great big, bug eyes anyhow, you know. Look like sticks out on his cheeks, especially when he gets all excited. And he was looking down, like this. I thought, "He's not watching me." Come to find out, the winds a blowing in that storm had forced a big old eagle down under this stuff, under this blow-down. This great big, old brown eagle was coming, moving out of there. That's what the little squirrel was excited about. He wasn't bothering me at all; he wasn't bothered about me. So he was watching that eagle down there, because that eagle could pick him up right easy, you know.
So I... He jumped out there, this big eagle, and thought, "Well, now what do you know about that?" I seen this big eagle jump out there, and those great big, velvet eyes looking around, you know. And thought, "Isn't he a pretty thing?" Stand about ten feet from me...

L-18 And I thought, "God, why did You attract my attention now to that eagle, instead of letting me run around and around this tree? I--I don't know why You'd let me look at a fellow like that. If I just kill a deer, and don't cover him up good, he'd pack him away. So why would I have to look at a fellow like that? I'm looking at You out here in the rainbow, seeing You out here in the--in the--hearing you in the wolf, and in all these things." I said, "Where would You be in that eagle? Yet, the Bible said that You're Jehovah Eagle, and we're eaglets. So now, I wonder how would You ever be in that eagle?"
I thought, "What--what could I see about that fellow? I can see the--the--the elk; he's a great big monarch. He's the monarch of the woods. I can see the wolf with his lonesome howl, and--and I can see the rainbow. But that fellow? What's about him godly?"

L-19 I happened to notice. He was setting there, and I said, "You know what?" I said, "Old fellow, I could shoot you if I wanted to." I said, "I--I could shoot you. Do you believe that?"
He just never paid me any attention, just sat there, and that great big head looking up, you know, and them eyes gazing over the skies, then look back at me. And I kept noticing him watching that chipmunk.
I think he had his eye on getting that chipmunk, is what I think, or that ground squirrel, or pine squirrel. We call them chipmunks in Indiana, but they're actually pine squirrels. So I seen him watching that.
I thought, "Well, what--what about him?" I said, "Well, there's one thing. He's not scared." And I said, "I'll see how scared he is." I said, "You know I could shoot you?" He just looked at me. I started raising my hand towards my gun. I seen him moving them feathers. I said, "I see it. I see what it is."
See, he knowed that he could be in that timber before I could ever get my hand on that rifle. That's right. Why? He had two wings. God give him two wings to escape danger, and I watched him feeling them feathers. I thought, "O God, I see where you're at now."

L-20 Somebody said to me, "Aren't you afraid you'll make a mistake sometime up on there?"
Oh, no. Oh, no. As long as I can just feel His God-given Presence is around, let them say anything they want to. It don't make any difference.
"Aren't you afraid somebody'd take a crack shot at you?"
No, no. Huh-uh. I ain't afraid as long as I can feel His Presence, that God-given power (that's all), just feel His Presence around.
"Aren't you afraid they'll class you as a holy-roller?"
Done did it. Didn't do any good. I'm going right on just the same. So it doesn't matter. Just feel His Presence around, you know, see that every feather is laying just right... Oh, my.
We ought to take inventory once in a while, and just see how everything's feeling. Don't you think so? I like that. Just feel that real comfortable feeling, like I do right now. See? He's right around now.


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