the ant and the contact lens

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 very scared, 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 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
>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.