Sunday April 9 AM

You've probably all read this story before, but I got it in an email again this morning & re-read it.  I hope you enjoy it, too.

 Brenda 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
  whyYou 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.

  Yes, I do  love GOD. He is my source of existence and my Savior. He
  keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I am nothing,
  but with Him....I can do all things through Christ which strengthens
  me. (Phil. 4:13)

  "You Gave Me A Mountain" and I will carry it for you Lord!