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The Ant and the Contact Lens
Brenda was almost halfway to the top of the tremendous granite
cliff. She was standing on a ledge where she was taking a breather
during this, her first rock climb. As she rested there, the safety
rope snapped against her eye and knocked out her contact lens .
"Great", she thought. "Here I am on a rock ledge,
hundreds of feet from the bottom and hundreds of feet to the top
of this cliff, and now my sight is blurry."
She looked and looked, hoping that somehow it had landed on the
ledge. But it just wasn't there.
She felt the panic rising in her, so she began praying. She prayed
for calm, and she prayed that she may find her contact lens.
When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing
for the lens, but it was not to be found. Although she was calm
now that she was at the top, she was saddened because she could
not clearly see across the range of mountains. She thought of the
bible verse "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout
the whole earth."
She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know
every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens
is. Please help me."
Later, when they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the
cliff they met another party of climbers just starting up the face
of the cliff.. One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody
lose a contact lens?"
Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber
saw it? An ant was moving slowly across a twig on the face of the
rock, carrying it!
The story doesn't end there. Brenda's father is a cartoonist. When
she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the
contact lens, he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that contact lens
with the caption, "Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry
this thing. I can't eat it, and it's awfully heavy. But if this
is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You."
I think it would do all of us some good to say, "God, I don't
know why You want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it
and it's awfully heavy. But, if You want me to carry it, I will."
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