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  Every time you smile at someone,
it's an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Great story!!!!
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
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.
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 who strengthens me. (Phil. 4:13)
This is a simple test. If you love GOD and are not ashamed of all the marvelous things He has
done for you, send this to ten people.
"You Gave Me A Mountain"
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