因为要教小五和小六，还要当小二年级代表。
就这样有一批小六PSLE离校会考考生的命运就交到了我手里。
还要跟一群勤劳又效率高得怕死人的长老们一起工作，
每天早上7点15分以前就得在学校露脸......
今天同事分享了一个真实的故事，
让我欣然接受这些挑战。
也想跟大家分享这个故事 :)
The Ant and the Contact Lens --A True Story
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 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.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)
Elisabeth Elliot published the story above in her 1995 book,'Keep A Quiet Heart'. She says the story is a first-person account given to her from Brenda Foltz of Princeton, Minnesota.
我虽然不怎么喜欢教高年级和会考班的学生，
可是我相信祢自有主张，这自有其意义，
and I will carry it for you。
p/s: 很想多看一次这个同事分享的故事，以为她会收存在sharing folder，寻找了甚久，那个同事就这样出现了，存有这个故事的thumb drive就在她肩上的手提包里。我们常常以为碰巧的事其实不是我们想的这么刚巧。
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