Thoughts about doors.

Right I'm thinking about doors. Well, that's getting ahead of myself a little bit. It started with taking Billy to the office in Orem to get his new state ID. He made the same mistake I made two years when I was doing exactly the same thing. He only brought one piece of mail when they need two. So we went back to the house, he grabbed another one, we came back. So I'm waiting in the car thinking about how time just flies past before you can supercalagrajalisticexpialadotious. Then this song by the Dixie Chicks comes on called Top of the World. It's a sad song, and very deep and such and here I am already thinking about time and it's effects on us as simple human beings. One line stood out and got me thinking about doors. "I think I broke the wings off a little song bird, she's never gonna fly to the the top of the world right now." And my first thought is a little girl I know who hugged me as tight as she could as soon as she met me. I knew her aunt you see, so I was no stranger, and so that made me an automatic best friend. She picked me flowers, about 7 of them one right after the other as I talked with her aunt. Now the happiness of the story ends there. This girl's father walked out on her and her brothers. He decided he wanted to sleep with other people while his wife was pregnant with their third child. And I think of that mother, a friend of mine now, and I think he just clipped all their wings, and he didn't even think twice. But this woman has decided she is going to fly anyway. She moved her kids, and that little girl's spirit remains uncrushed. She hugs her friends, she dances and spins and smiles and plays and runs. She runs. And I am amazed by this little girl. Despite everything I know she and her mother and her brothers will make it. I get a little tear in my eye and I just marvel at how Heavenly Father can deal with all of us and our problems. Just for that you know He is all powerful. He has to be. With so much heartbreak in the world, so much suffering, so many doors for people to walk through and never look back, if there wasn't a plan to all of it then I would never get through it.
There is another line in the song that I love, because it signifies what I want to do in my life, and everything I that strive to be. "Wanna grab ahold of that little songbird, take her for a ride to the top of the world right now."