It was sometime in February when I decided to approach the Lord in this special pray. I decide to sleep outside in the fresh crisp cold winter air under the stars of heaven. It was freezing cold and I slept on a cot on my parent's cliff top over looking Long Island sound and New England. Before I went to sleep, I knelt down and prayed a simple prayer that went something like this.Dear Father in Heaven, see my great plight I'm young, weak and lowly in heart. Who am I to carry your torch before the faces of men. I love Thee my Lord with the whole of my heart, but I'm not sure of all that Thou wants. I've seen with my eyes Thy Glory and yet I have not the power to express it to the children of men. They all think me mad, diluted and strange. I trust in Thee to lead me to where I should be and what I should say. Now, hear my prayer oh Lord and grant me I pray a physical witness that I'm not insane. Something to show the children of men that they may know that I'm your friend. This I prayed for that very night in the Holy name of Jesus the Christ. Amen. I went to sleep and dreamed a dream of being in a building lifted high above the earth. I entered a room with many windows which looked down upon the cloud covered world. I felt to explore and opened another door. There I saw to my surprise the devil sitting at the far end of a long table playing cards with some of his friends. I saw in their faces that they were as surprised as me. They had the look of wonder as if to ask, " have you come to join or harass us ? " Again, I was lost for words and felt afraid and out numbered. They seemed to know so much more about me and the mysteries of life that I felt naked and scared. I quickly left that room and began praying to God. I ask for help and power to deliver me from the devil and his friends. I then felt to make a cross and searched a dresser draw for material. I found some items which I tied together in the shape of a cross. Then with cross in hand I re-entered the room pronouncing them gone in the name of Jesus Christ. It did the trick, for their smug faces quickly changed into terror as they fled my presence. I then awoke in a calm peace to the brightness of the sun's first morning rays. After getting out of my cot and falling upon my knees in pray to thank my God, I realized what I must do. I must find a stick and make a cross as a physical witness that God is leading me. Immediately I went down to my fathers beach to find the wood I needed. There along the shoreline I picked up a piece of driftwood to meet my need. The stick I found fit my need perfectly. I noticed it had an open hole at one end in which I put another stick through making it a cross.I was so excited with my new dream and cross that I rushed to the Suffolk campus to proclaim the word of God. My new message was very simple," Put Christ First ! " I held up my new found cross for all to see and proclaimed the coming day of the Lord. It got their attention and many came to see this new wonder of the Lord.To my message I quickly added the testimonies carved in my staff. That the Lord Jesus is resurrected and freed from the cross to save all mankind. His arms raised in victory and his right arm full of power and strength to raise up the dead and crown the true saints.There are many shapes, signs and symbols written in this weathered root or branch. The head of an eagle and a white stone all tied together near the Savior's throne. At the middle of the scepter is the head of a serpent with its mouth opened wide as the gates of hell. The base of this stem or rod was riddled with rot and holes from which fell a black wood worm.The richness of all the symbols gave me plenty to say for they witnessed of all my visions and the Lord's promised day. The eagle bears witness that America too is God's promise land. For I saw in vision it's freedom flight leading America into God's greater light. America is God's true Zion my friends. The white stone speaks for itself as John has said. Those other lower symbols speak of darkness and death. Hope, light and eternal life for all those who will believe in the true Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. This was and is my message to all the world. He is the same yesterday, today and forever more. Amen.With scepter in hand, I proclaimed the coming of the resurrected Lamb who at one time had been slain for all of mankind. This was the path the Lord led me down during the winter of my twentieth year. Strange and stranger went the events of my life as I search to find ways to bring people to Christ.