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WOW!  This one is great.
Luv ya,
Marlene

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>     > THE ANT AND THE CONTACT LENS
>     >
>     > A true story by Josh and Karen Zarandona
>     >
>     > Brenda was a young woman 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 a 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
> 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,
> 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 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.
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > _________________________ >>
>     >
>     >
>     >

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