<TITLE>07. Par 48-58</TITLE>L-48   The day before was my anniversary, too, my wife and I were married twenty years before that. And I have never been home on our anniversary. And I always go up to the mountain, a little place where there is some quaking asp. The first year we were married, I didn't have enough money to take a honeymoon, for a little trip, and then take a hunting trip too, so I took my wife on a hunting trip for the honeymoon. So that looked like, kind of getting it, got both at the same time.

L-49 And I remember, a little fellow, I--I'd pick her up and lift her over logs, and things. And we got up to a little place, and took her picture, and its always kind of--kind of a fair. I think of that, and think of her black hair and how pretty she was; and now gray and just a few years has done to her.

L-50 I thought, "I believe I'll go up there, but it's--it's too hard." The snow was too hard then.

L-51 I knowed I had to get in, because they had broadcasted, "A severe blizzard on the road!" They had broadcasted it across the nation. I don't know whether Tom Simpson is sitting here this morning, or not. Coming down from Canada, he was told by radio, not to even go through that country at all. Everybody said, "Don't go through there. Go the other way, 'cause a horrible blizzard is sweeping across."

L-52   And I started down the mountain, thinking about that, and about ten o'clock in the morning. And all of a sudden, just as plain as you hear my voice, the Voice said, "Stop, and turn around and go back."

L-53 Now I couldn't tell this amongst people that's unbelievers. You only have to tell it to believers, and then, because this, the unbelievers will never understand it. You got to have a spiritual mind to understand spiritual things. The Word is spiritual. It's interpreted spiritual. And It's--It's God's Word. And I stopped, and I thought, "If I go back up there, another half a mile back up, the storm raging like it is..."

L-54   And David Wood had made me a sandwich, and, it was! I think he was getting even with me for making his father one, one time. We didn't have nothing but some onions and honey and bread, and, I put it all together, we made us a sandwich. And he couldn't hardly eat his. And I think he was trying to get even with me for that, so he put... I--I don't know what all kind he... And going up the mountain, the rain falling so fast, it got it wet, and it was just in one big wad. I thought, "Well, I'll eat that and wait."

L-55 And while I was standing there, thought, "That wasn't nothing. I just imagined. It was a wind, probably, was blowing, twisting through these trees." And I started to walk on. I just could not walk. And I thought, "Well, I--I believe I'll go back."

L-56 And I heard It again. "Go back where you come from." It said that. I started up the mountain, stopped. And I thought, "Maybe I..." I--I was getting scared to go back to where I was at, because the--the winds were so terrific.

L-57 Sometime God makes us do things that--that seems very dangerous and out of line. How about Moses with that stick, going down to take over Egypt? And everything we find like that, that God asks the impossibles, see, so that He does the impossibles, that man will know that it isn't him; it's God that's doing it.

L-58   I went back up to the top of the mountain again, finding my way through the blowing, twisting trees. I set down and took my gun, and keep the scope from getting... up like that. Bear run in that kind of time. And so I put my scope back under my shirt, like this, and sit down a moment. I thought, "What am I doing, sitting here?"


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