The ant and the contact lens: a true story

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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 felt the panic rising in her, so she began praying. 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 couldn't clearly see across the range of the 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 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 story of the ant, the contact lens and the prayer, he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging with that contact lens with the caption, "Lord, i don't know 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." Let's always remember that God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called. Please share your thoughts of reflection about this story. God bless everyone.