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Before I get to the actual hunt, I have another spiritual thing that happened to me during the preparation phase. I’m getting to be a geezer. I don’t sleep all that great anymore. Often I throw some hunting podcast on the sleep timer of my phone and put it under my ear as I go off to sleep. As I wake up during the night, I zip back randomly in the podcast, set a 15 or 30 minute sleep timer and doze back off to some hunting information. I never hear the podcast stop, I’m always asleep by that point.
This night, August 8th, I had restless sleep. I probably had gone back into this particular story 4 or 5 times. The podcast was new to me. I had just found “The Hunter’s Quest” podcast that day. This particular episode featured Scott Luber as the guest. Scott has walked into every major mountain range in Alaska and taken a Dall ram.
That’s impressive.
So for the first time ever, I’m dozing off when my sleep timer stops DEAD in the middle of a sentence and sits me straight up in the bed. The sentence is:
“We’re putting on the pack and the boots, and were walking away from the truck and away from what’s familiar and God’s going to write the story out there and He’s got this story for us and we just have to trust Him.”
At “God’s going to write the story” everything stopped and that will be forever etched in my brain. It wasn’t at the end of a sentence, the next word was immediate and it stopped DEAD right there and believe you me I was wide awake. Enough things that I’m not good at paying attention to from God were happening to me and I was definitely starting to pay attention, this was not a coincidence.
The next morning I tried to pause the podcast at that point in the sentence. I tried at least a dozen times and even though I knew EXACTLY when I needed to pause the podcast, I could not do it. I grabbed the screen shot above so I would remember after the hunt took place. Too many spiritual things were happening revolving around this sheep hunt and there had to be a reason.
This night, August 8th, I had restless sleep. I probably had gone back into this particular story 4 or 5 times. The podcast was new to me. I had just found “The Hunter’s Quest” podcast that day. This particular episode featured Scott Luber as the guest. Scott has walked into every major mountain range in Alaska and taken a Dall ram.
That’s impressive.
So for the first time ever, I’m dozing off when my sleep timer stops DEAD in the middle of a sentence and sits me straight up in the bed. The sentence is:
“We’re putting on the pack and the boots, and were walking away from the truck and away from what’s familiar and God’s going to write the story out there and He’s got this story for us and we just have to trust Him.”
At “God’s going to write the story” everything stopped and that will be forever etched in my brain. It wasn’t at the end of a sentence, the next word was immediate and it stopped DEAD right there and believe you me I was wide awake. Enough things that I’m not good at paying attention to from God were happening to me and I was definitely starting to pay attention, this was not a coincidence.
The next morning I tried to pause the podcast at that point in the sentence. I tried at least a dozen times and even though I knew EXACTLY when I needed to pause the podcast, I could not do it. I grabbed the screen shot above so I would remember after the hunt took place. Too many spiritual things were happening revolving around this sheep hunt and there had to be a reason.
