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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