Trusty

Once, a little baby blue jay fell out of her comfortable straw nest onto the hard ground, Kerplop!!! Rather stunned and shaken up, she began to look around her. She was all alone in the big, wild world. She couldn't fly because she didn't have her adult feathers yet, all she could do was hop around on the cold, hard ground. Some neighborhood boys spied her and after a slight chase, she was caught in their clumsy fist. Not knowing how to give the bird proper care, they wondered what to do with her next. My neighbor, Debbie Sue, suggested that the boys bring the bird over to me. And who am I? Well, nothing other than a born-again, Bible believing, ANIMAL LOVER!!!
I had been well experienced in this sort of thing, being a missionary over in Haiti for six years. I took in all kinds of wounded wild birds, and nursed them back to health. I decided to name this baby blue jay, Dusty, after a wild bird I once had in Haiti. At first it was a bit difficult to feed Dusty. She couldn't understand that this friendly hand wanted to help take care of her. She fought beak and nail against me, until finally I had to just force- feed her or else she would die.
It didn't take long for Dusty to realize that she was getting the Tender Loving Care Treatment, and in a matter of days her feedings became easier. In a matter of weeks she began to easily take the food from my hands. Dusty started putting more, and more trust in me. It got to where she didn't need a cage, she would always stay perched right where I put her. When she got a bit older, she began following me around the house. At nights when I'd read the Bible to the boys, Dusty would fly down from her perch, and we would hear the pitter patter of little birdie feet hoping down the hall. Dusty was coming to join us.
One dark day, my life ran into some stormy weather. Something started troubling me, and I began to worry about it. It was a pretty scary situation to me, and I started praying about it seriously. It was a situation totally out of my hands and out of my control to do anything about. I had prayed my hardest over the thing, but I was still worried about it. One night I was sitting on my couch fretting. Dusty hoped down from her perch, and came over to the couch to where I was. She flew up on my head and started playing with my hair. I got her down several times, because I did not want her leaving any deposits on my head. I finally put her on the other side of the couch, and sat back down in my place. Shortly after, I received a phone call. While I was on the phone, I saw her fall down behind the couch. I did not pay her any attention because I just figured she’d come out from under the couch on her own. After my phone call, I forgot about her. About an hour and a half went by, and then I heard her. I reached behind the couch and tried to pull her up, but her leg was stuck. I pulled the couch out a bit where she could get free, but she just stayed right there and didn't move. I got down on my hands and knees, and stuck my hand under the couch. When she noticed my hand she jumped on the back of it, and enjoyed the nice ride out from underneath that dark scary place. I sat back down on the couch with her and said, "It's o.k. now, Momma's got you." She jumped on my shoulder, ruffled her feathers, tucked her beak neatly under her wing, and went to sleep. I just smiled. It made me feel so good that she had that much trust in me. I decided to test that trust. I snapped my fingers; she didn't budge. I crinkled paper loudly; still she was sound asleep. I made sudden moves with my shoulder to where she'd almost fall off, but still she slept through. I kept moving around until finally she pulled her beak out from under her wing and just gave me a look that seemed to say," Could you make a little less racket, and be still, I'm trying to sleep here." Then she neatly tucked her beak back under her wing. I just smiled at her. What a bird, I was so proud of her.
Just then, the Lord tapped me on the shoulder and said, "It makes me feel good too when you have that much faith and trust in me." Right then and there, I learned the most valuable lesson I could have ever learned in my whole life, and the Lord taught it to me through a little bird. Here was a wild bird that used to be scared of her own shadow, and now she had total faith and trust in her master. It would have been harder to care for her if she was still scared of everything. You know that’s how God feels when we worry about everything. It would be much easier for God to care for us, if we would trust him completely with our lives. Don't you think that makes God want to smile down on us, when he sees his children have total faith and trust in him. As long as we sit perched on the master’s arm, we can ride through the storms together; he's not going to let us fall. When I began to realize this, the tears started to roll down my face, and drop all over my little Dusty bird. That night, I changed Dusty’s name to "Trusty."
Trusty began doing all kinds of neat little things. She loved to get the boys Lego pieces and tried to hide them by pushing them under the rug with her beak. She also liked untying the shoe strings on my tennis shoes. I taught her several whistle tunes, and she loved whistling her little tunes to good clean Christian music. Trusty was also a watch bird. She loved to give her blue jay call when ever she would hear a car drive up into the drive way. But the neatest, most wonderful thing this Trusty bird ever did, was teach me the greatest lesson a child of God could ever learn. And that was "Total Trust in my Master."
This was one of Trusty's favorite songs that she liked to whistle.

THERE SO MUCH GOING ON AROUND ME,
AND I'M NOT SO SURE I LIKE THE THINGS I SEE.
LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF UNBELIEFE IT'S HOPELESS,
BUT THE ONE WHO HOLDS MY HAND SAYS TRUST IN ME.

SOMETIMES MY LIFE IS LIKE A WHIRLPOOL,
AS I GO ON SPINNING ROUND SO ENDLESSLY,
BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY WHIRLPOOL THERE'S A STILLNESS,
FOR I HEAR THE VOICE OF JESUS,"TRUST IN ME."

IF I COULD CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN,
IF THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING BELONGED TO ME.
I COULD NEVER REALLY FIND TRUE SATISFACTION,
JESUS CHRIST WHO MADE IT ALL SAYS,"TRUST IN ME."

TRUST IN ME, WHEN YOU KNOW YOUR SINKING.
TRUST IN ME, WHEN THINGS START FALLING APART.
TRUST IN ME, I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU.
TRUST IN ME, YOU'LL HAVE SUCH PEACE IN YOUR HEART.

Isaiah 41:10, Fear thou not for I am with thee; be not dismayed for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.