<TITLE>11. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 And I got into a blow-down, where a hurricane had twisted up the timber and blowed it together. And I was climbing through this, and there come a great, heavy, storm, raining. And I got back behind a tree, and I stood like this, behind a tree, till the storm was over. And I was standing there; almost went to sleep. The winds blowing and things and... You could hear God speaking through the roar of them pines. I thought, "O God, how great Thou art." And after the storm was over, I stood there a little bit, kind of "noddy." I almost fell over two or three times. I got a little wet.
So I... Been a awful hard blow and I walked out behind... I thought, "Glory to God. How wonderful it is to be up here, to be alone with God." Two days now I hadn't seen nobody here, so... Hundred... You're forty miles anyhow from a railroad. You're way away from automobiles, no gasoline, cigarettes, all stinking carry on of what's called civilization. I thought, "This is wonderful to be standing here."

L-41 I watched the sun setting over here in Oregon, across that way. And there's great big, pretty eye setting through there. And I thought, "That's right. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." You can see God anywhere, if you'll just look around. He's all around you, everywhere. He's in flowers, nature, everywhere. I seen Him there.
Then I happened to look, and I heard an old coyote hollering up on the hill there. His mate answered him down in the bottom. Now, you talk about deep calling to the deep. Hear that squall of the coyote or timber wolf, that just sets my soul aflame. I hear him over there, hollering. He'd lost his mate, and she answered him, way down there in the bottom.
And I thought, "O God, I got a Mate too. I'll call and He will answer me one day." I stood there and I thought, "God, there You are."
I heard the bugle over here, the elk herd I was trying to catch up with. Big old male let out that long whistle, bugle, like that. What... The storm had separated the elk up high, and he'd lost his herd, and he was calling for them. I thought, "O God, You live up here. That's right. Here You are." There He was in the elk herd, there He was in the call of the wolf.

L-42 Then I happened to look. And where the sun come out, and the evergreens had froze, that cold wind, there was a rainbow across the canyon. I said, "There He is in the rainbow. Amen. There He is. There's the covenant. He will never destroy it again with water. He promised it."
And a rainbow also is, Revelations 1, where over the Son of God; and over the church, the seven golden candlesticks, was a rainbow. He was to look upon as jasper and sardine stone, the First and the Last, He that was, which is and shall come. O my, my, my. Everywhere you look, you can see God if you'll just open up your eyes. Look around. He's everywhere.


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