<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 And you little boys around here, don't shoot my robins. Huh-uh. They're mine. See? Did you ever hear the legend of the robins, you little boys? Now, if you want to shoot at English sparrows, that's up to you, and papa and mama, and so forth. See? But my robins and doves, don't shoot at them. You remember, that--that's my birds. See? Do you know how he got his little red breast? How many ever heard how he got it, the legend?
One day there was a Man dying on a cross. Everybody had forsaken Him. Even God Himself had forsaken Him. You know what happened? A little brown bird looked at Him there and felt so sorry for Him. He looked, His hands was pierced through with nails, and His feet was drove to a cross. He was in prison.
You know what this little brown bird did? He was so sorry for Him, he just run right in and tried to pull those nails out. And in doing so, he got his little breast all red with blood. Since then he's had a red breast. You don't want to shoot him, do you? He's a nice little bird. (You ought to see them little bright eyes looking up at me.) Oh, nature...

L-11 I remember learning of the eagle. Once I was setting in Colorado, and I was watching... It was in the spring roundup, bringing the cattle in. And I climbed up on a hill, and I was watching an eagle, how she was bringing her little ones, and what she did with them. And I thought, "How amazing." Taking my binoculars, to get right up close to where she was at...

L-12 And one year, I was up there elk hunting. And the snow has to run the elk down. If it don't, they're wild. They don't get down in the valleys, where sometimes fishermen and things comes up the creeks and... But they stay real high. And there had been no snow to run them down. So the rancher and I was--had parted. We'd see one another in the next two or three days, and we'd meet where we were hunting across: he on one side of the divide, and me on the other.
And I had about a couple of pack horses and a saddle horse. So I climbed way up where I didn't take my horse, early that morning, and went on up high: just hobbled him, so he could pick awhile. And went way up high...
In the fall of the year around October there, it'll rain awhile, and snow awhile. Oh, you know how it is, almost like a March down here. Then the sun will come and dry it all off.
And come up a storm, one of them quick Northerners. And there was an old blow-down close. I was almost to timber line. And I'd just got behind a tree, and stood like this till the storm was over. And after the storm was over, I stood there. And the wind got real cold when it was storming. The wind blowing, and the rains falling (the autumn rains), and the evergreens was freezing.

L-13 Then way back in the west, the sun came out. And I noticed it shining down, and struck against the side of the mountain, those evergreens froze. It formed a rainbow across the canyon. That great big eye setting back there into the west looking that way, I thought, "That's like the eyes of God running to and fro through the whole earth."
You know, you just can't go anywhere 'less you can see God, if you'll just look for Him. He's just--He's just everywhere. You've got to get Him in here first though, then let Him use your eyes to look. Get Him in here, and He will use your tongue to speak. Just... He will just use your whole being. Just as much as you will yield to Him, that's how much He can use.
God has an awful time getting a fellow to yield to Him. Like Samson, Samson was kind of a lady's man. He yielded his strength to God, but wouldn't give his heart to God. He give that to Delilah. And that's all God could use was his strength. And just as much as you'll give to Him, that's what He can use of you. Oh, let's just give all to Him, say, "Here I am, Lord. Just take me."


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