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A true story by Josh bottom. At the bottom there was a new
and Karen Zarandona party of climbers just starting up the face
Brenda was invited to go rock climbing. of the cliff. One of them shouted, “Hey,
She went with her group to a tremendous you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?”
high granite cliff. In spite of her fear she Well, that would be startling enough, but
put on the gear, took hold of the rope, and you know why the climber saw it? An ant
started up the face of that rock. Well, she was moving slowly across the face of the
got to a ledge where she could take a rock, carrying it! Brenda told me that her
breath. As she was hanging on there, the father is a cartoonist. When she told him
safety rope snapped against her eye and the incredible story of the ant, the prayer,
knocked out her contact lens. There she and the contact lens, he drew a picture of
was on the ledge with hundreds of feet an ant lugging that contact lens with the
below her and hundreds of feet above words, “Lord, I don’t know why You want
her. Of course, she looked and looked me to carry this thing. I can’t eat it, and it’s
and looked, hoping it had landed on the awfully heavy. But if this is what You want
ledge, but it just wasn’t there. She felt me to do, I’ll carry it for You.”
very far from home, her sight now blurry. Don’t we often say, “God, I don’t know
She was desperate, so she prayed to the why you want me to carry this load, it’s
Lord to help her find it. awfully heavy. But if You want me to carry
When she finally got to the top, a friend it, I will”?
examined her eye and her clothing for “God doesn’t call the qualified, He
the lens, but there was no contact lens to qualifies the called.” (Selected).
be found. She sat down, despondent,
with the rest of the party, waiting for the
rest of them to make it up to 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