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The ant and the contact lens..a true story
>�Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although
>she� was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite
>cliff.
>In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took hold of 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 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 her clothing for the
>lens,�but there was no contact lens to be found. She sat down, despondent,
>withthe 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 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. 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 lose 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 on
>it's
>back.
>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."
>
>�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.��Without Him, I am
>nothing,
>�but with Him...I can do all�things through Christ which strengthens me.
>(Phil. 4:13)
>

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