Broadcasting Life

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 hold
of 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 he
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, waiting for the last 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.

Please tell me this is why my life is so....complicated? busy? completely full of homework? (it's just homework that sucks)