I recieved my creditials the other day! Never would I have thought I would ever be titled, as I've had no official training. However, I've had a life time of hands on training. From the dryest deserts, to the plushest forrests, from the loneliest highways, to the deepest darkest steets, of the biggest cities, I've traveled with back pack stuffed, and thumb for a ride, I set out to chase the truth. I figured, being raised Christian, I would go prove these truths I've been taught all my life, first. What better way to do that, than the way Jesus sent out his desciples? With nothing more than the shirts on their backs, and the promise that the Lord will provide everything you need. I know,,, I cheated, with the backpack and all,,, but these are different times!hehehe! Yeah, I'll go with that justification!!!lol ! And low and behold,,, since I had those provisions, the Lord made sure I used them! ;) Yep, that pup tent came in mighty handy! So did that pot and bag of beans and rice i had for back up, encase this Faith therory didn't hold up. In the course of this little Faith mission I crossed paths with all the teachers I needed, to teach me where the truth was. The Faith, was instictually there, and got poven to my consciousness. The Lord indeed provided everything I needed, by the people I needed to see, and needed to see me. Like finding a place to finally be able to pitch a "pup tent" in a legal place to be, and stay for a few days to dry out. So I finally built a wet fire, in a small pit I built on the side of the giagantic pit that was there, that would accomodate my little grill. My beans were cooking, when the Game Warden came rolling off the mountian right into camp and said " Who's going to jail"? I said what for? He said illegal camp fire, and called the county to come pick me up. Off to jail I went. Faith was looking pretty dire! As we're riding back to town, it started raining cats and dogs! I thought hmmm, don't even think the pup tent would stand up for this one, and the beans definetly ain't gonna cook! As I was standing there watching them slam the door, I catch a sticker on the door that says, aquarius; the stars are in your favor, especially those worn by sherriffs, and deputies... I'm aquarious!!! That's a point for astrology in my little research project. So I hemhaw around for a little bit, trying to wrangle my fears on the fact that in those days a long haired man can face quite an ordeal in a backwoods jail house. Then I looked over, and saw a Bible. I had been using the Bible as an oracle, by just blindly turning to a page, when in need of advice. I opened the Bible to Revelations. It said, fear not, for the devil will cast you into prison, to be tried for ten days. Have Faith unto death, and I will give you a crown of life! Well, There's another piece of evidence, but what do I do now? Then this feller, only one in there, pipes up and says, supper will be pretty soon. And they feed damn good in here. Well, well,well,,, to hell with a half cooked pot a beans, and in the dry, brough a Thank You Lord off my lips! But,,, the trials and tribulations had just begun. The feller in there was knotting him some sheets together, not to escape either! You guessed it, he was,,, literally at the end of his sheets! I spent the next five days talking this man out of hanging himself. I didn't preach at him. I just instinctually knew, it wouldn't work. I interacted with him in a cramped jail cell,and snuck up on him with the truth. Coming from a fellow sinner right there in jail with him, he was not afraid of feeling inferior, or insecure, and changed his mind, and hugged me for saving his life, as they turned him loose the next day. The next day, it had rained all the way up til, and just quit, sun came out, they came to me and said,,, you were supposed to do ten days for an illegal camp fire, but, If you wash all out cruisers in the yard, and clean the kennels, we'll call it even. A,proven Lord, slipped past my lips. That was the first of several over a six month 'Faith Walk", "Walk About", many terms from many religions for that walk. Then, the Spirit people call Jesus, I call Ben Adam, came to me in a visible Golden Light, in form, with halo and all, and told me thank you, your hired... That's as close as I can touch that experience, in any language alive today. That was about 42 years ago, and I've lived that Faith, and passed it along ever since.I've traded the backpack in for a laptop, and I will virtually, carry on, Thanks to this wonderful Interfaith Ministry! Thank You ULCM! Sincerely, and Honestly,,, terry lay
