A true story by Josh and Karen Zarandona - The Ant and The Contact Lens

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Brenda was a young woman who was invited to gorock climbing. Although she was

very scared, shewent with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of

her fear, she put on thegear, took hold of the rope, and started up the faceof

that rock.Well, she got to a ledge where shecould take breather. As she was

hanging onthere, the safety rope snapped againstBrenda's eye and knocked out

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

with hundreds of feet below her andhundreds of feet above her. Of course, she

lookedand looked and looked, hoping it had landed onthe ledge,but it just

wasn't there.Here she was, far from home, her sight nowblurry. She was

desperate and beganto get upset, so she prayed to the Lord tohelp her to find

it.When she got to the top, a friendexamined her eye and her clothing for the

lens,but there was no contact lens to be found. Shesat down,despondent, with

the rest of theparty, waiting for the rest of them to make it upthe face of the

cliff.She looked out across range afterrange of mountains, thinking of that

versethat 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 everystone 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 ofclimbers just starting up the

face of the cliff.One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybodylose a contact

lens?"Well, that would be startling enough, but youknow why the climber saw it?

An ant was movingslowly across the face of the rock, carrying iton it's

back.Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist.When she told him the

incredible story of theant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drewa picture

of an ant lugging that contact lenswith the words, "Lord, I don't know why You

wantme to carry this thing. I can't eat it, andit's awfully heavy. But if this

is what Youwant me to do, I'll carry it for You"I think it would probably do

some of us good tooccasionally say, "God, I don't know why youwant me to carry

this load. I can see no goodin it and it's awfully heavy. But, if you wantme to

carry it, I will."God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. Yes,

I do love GOD. He is my source ofexistence and my Savior. He keeps me

functioning

each and every day. Without Him, I am nothing,but with Him...I can do all things

throughChrist which strengthens me. (Ph! il. 4:13)