The Ant and the Contact lens

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What a great story and a

lesson!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Brenda Foltz of Princeton, Minnesota, was

almost halfway to the top of the tremendous granite cliff. She

was standing on

a ledge where she was taking a breather during this, her

first rock

climb. As she rested there, the safety rope snapped

against her eye

and knocked out her contact lens.

 

'Great', she

thought. 'Here I am on a rock ledge, hundreds of feet from the

bottom and

hundreds of feet to the top of this cliff, and now my sight

is blurry.'

She looked and looked, hoping that somehow it had

landed on the

ledge. But it just wasn't there.

 

She felt the

panic rising in her, so she began praying. She prayed for

calm, and she

prayed that she may find her contact lens. When she

got to the top,

a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens,

but it was not

to be found. Although she was calm now that she was

at the top, she

was saddened because she could not clearly see across

the range of

mountains. She thought of the bible verse '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.'

 

Later, when

they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the cliff they met another 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 a twig on the face of the rock, carrying it!

 

 

 

 

The story doesn't end there. Brenda's father is a

cartoonist.

When she

told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and

the contact

lens, he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that contact lens

with the

caption, '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 do all of us some good to 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.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As related by Brenda Foltz to Elisabeth

Elliot in " Keep A Quiet Heart " 1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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