[nukkad] From Rajababu-The Ant and the Contact lens

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> Foreword from Rajababu-All of us probably get 2-3 e-mails per week about
> some or the other article of God. Some sort of exhortation to God. Some
> e-mail exhorting us to send this e-mail to 10 other peole and then
> 'experience' the ring of spirituality around yourself. here, I have
defined
> "Lord" in this story as Hard work. Keep working hard. Dont look at the
> Godrej's and the Ambani's who boogie woogie the night away at some
> 'happening' discotheque . Don't feel jealous of them, because they have
> earned it. Spend the night in toil for the reward of a marvellous dawn.
> Please read on.................
>
>
> THE ANT AND THE CONTACT LENS     A true story by Josh and Karen Zarandona
> Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she
> was scared to climb, 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 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 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. 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.    PASS THIS ON ONLY IF YOU MEAN IT.     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
>



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