Brenda was a young women who was invited 

to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death,

 she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff.

 In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took

hold on the rope, and started up the face of that rock. 

Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. 

As she was hanging on there, the safety rope

snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked 

out her contact lens. Well, here she is on a rock ledge, 

with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of

feet above her. Of course, she looked and looked,

 hoping it had landed on the ledge, 

but it just wasn't there. Here she was, far from home,

 her sight now blurry. She was desperate and 

began to get upset, so she prayed to the Lord 

 to help her to find it. When she got to the top, a 

friend examined her eye and clothing for the lens,

 but there was no contact lens to be found. 

She sat down, despondent,  with the rest of the party,

 waiting for the rest of them to make it up the 

face of the cliff. She looked out across range 

after  range of mountains, thinking of that 

Bible verse that says,

"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."

 Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom. 

At the bottom there was a new party of climbers just 

starting up the face of the cliff. One of them

 shouted out, "Hey you guys! Anybody loose a contact lens?"

Well, that would be startling enough, 

but you know why the climber saw it?

An ant was moving slowly across the face 

of the rock carrying it!

Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. 

 When she told him the incredible story of the ant,

 the prayer, and the contact lens he drew

a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens 

with the words, "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."

At the risk of being accused of being fatalistic, 

I think it would probably do some of us good 

to occasionally 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."

 A true story 

by Josh and Karen

Submitted by ~ Crystal Anderson

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