Quitting and Redbirds

Do you ever realize how easy it is to quit? I don't mean like a job, but everything. You stop for a day and before you know it a month has went by.

Or, in my case years. While in Tahoka I was asked when the last time I sat in assembly was. I said 2009. I really thought it was then. Nope, 2004!

8 years. I let 8 years go by before I followed through. Lord thank you for not giving up on me. I was so far gone that it seemed useless to come back. Then I heard this song.

Redbird - by Warren Barfield.... wow. It was after Tahoka, but man did it hit me. He never really goes away. One part says, "Everybody that you thought was true, has flown away
 I’m gonna be your redbird." God is our redbird. He is always there even after everything we knew is gone.

Read the lyrics. - I think these are right... I could be wrong.

You don’t have to worry,
In Your time of trouble!
I’ll be at Your window there
Singing this song

And I will comfort You
With this love I have for You!
I will never leave You alone.

When Your sky trades warmer blues for colder gray
Everybody that you thought was true, has flown away
Ya I’m gonna be Your redbird

But everything keeps changing
Without any notice
It’s hard to know what is
And isn’t yours
In a weird world
You need a touch of normal
And need to know one thing is sure!

When Your sky trades warmer blues for colder grays
Everybody that you thought was true, has flown away
I’m gonna be your redbird.
 
Your redbird
Your redbird

When Your sky trades warmer blues to cold cold gray
Everybody that You thought was true, has flown away
Ya I’m gonna be, yes I’m gonna be Your redbird.
Your redbird - Redbird




Then there was this - sidenote:

I have failed in so many things that it is hard to admit. Yet, here lately I feel like I should just try again, try harder, and then maybe not fail.

This week we had a girls ice cream date to Dairy Queen. My mother, 2 sisters, and 2 nephews. I was able to ride with my sister and it was so nice. I had to thank God for allowing it to happen. I didn't fail on his part because I was guided to offer. It was awesome. She has so much going on on I know she needs a break. I hope that with my help that night she may get some rest.

The women in my family are complicated, stubborn, and beautiful.