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Forgive me if you received this from Mom. I wanted others who are not on her mailing list to have the opportunity to read it. I think it's AWEsome!! ^_^
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."
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
....I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
(Phil. 4:13)
I hope you enjoy them both as much as I did!!!
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