If we sometimes wonder why we carry heavy loads...

Brenda was a young woman who wanted to learn rock climbing. She went with a group and they faced this tremendous cliff practically perpendicular. In

spite of her fear, she put on the gear and she took a hold of the rope and she started up the face of the rock. She got to a ledge where she could take a breather. Whoever was holding the rope up at the top of the cliff accidentally snapped the rope against Brenda's eye and knocked out her contact lens.

Contact lenses are tiny and how almost impossible to find normally. Well, here she is on a rock ledge, with who knows how many hundreds of feet behind and hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping that she would be able to find that contact lens.

Her sight was now blurry. She was very upset by the fact that she wouldn't be anywhere near a place where she could get a new contact lens. So, he prayed that the Lord would help her to find it. Perhaps when she got to the top of the cliff, one of the girls that was up there on the

top might be able find her contact lens in the corner of her eye. When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye, but there was no contact lens to be found.

She looked out across range after range of mountains, thinking of that Bible verse that says, "The eyes of the Lord run to and from throughout the whole earth." She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every single stone and leaf that's on those mountains and You know exactly where my contact lens is." Finally, the time came when it was time to go down.

They walked down the trail to the bottom. Just as they got there, there was a new party of rock climbers began to climb up the rock.

As one of them started up the face of the cliff, she shouted down, "Hey, you guys! anybody lose a contact lens?"

An ant was carrying that contact lens so that it was moving slowly across the face of the rock toward her.

When she told he father who is a cartoonist, this incredible story, he drew a picture of that 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."

If God is in charge of the ants, don't you think He cares about you and me? I guess Solomon was right. One could learn a valuable lesson from that ant

TRUST IN GOD!

We could probably all say a little more often, "God, I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I see no good in it and it's awfully heavy. Still, if you want me to, I'll carry it for You."

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