a good story

April 17, 2000

Hi everyone,

I thought this was a motivating story that should be shared.

THE CONTACT LENS

A true story by Josh and Zarandona

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 '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.

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, 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.