Indirectly related to CMT

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Hope this takes.

A true story by Josh and Zarandona

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 the 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

'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 to 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. 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.