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Precious Lord, help me to over come the thoughtlessness And hurt that is of this world
Teach me how to forgive others as you
forgive me. AMEN

A point to Ponder...
A loving husband is one who remembers
his wife's birthday, but forgets which one.

The Ant and the Contact Lens

( Not a true story , but a good one)

Brenda was a young woman who was
invited to go rock climbing.
Although she was scared to death,
she went with her group to a
tremendous granite cliff
In spite of her fear, she put on her gear,
took a hold on 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
her 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 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, with the
 rest of the party, waiting for the rest of them to
make it up 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
 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.
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.

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