一个年轻人就要从大学毕月了。几个月以来，他一直非常喜欢一家汽车商店陈列室中的一辆跑车，他知道他父亲买得起它，他告诉了他父亲那是他想要的。
随着毕业典礼的临近，年轻人等待着他父亲已经买了那辆跑车的迹象。终于，在毕业典礼那天早晨，他父亲把他叫进了他的书房，他父亲告诉他，他为有这样一个好儿子感到很自豪，并说了他有多么爱他。他递给儿子一个包装精美的礼盒，年轻人好奇又有些失望地打开了礼盒，看到了一本精美的、皮革包边的圣经。他气忿地对父亲大声说：“你有那么多钱，就给了我一本圣经？”然后，他丢下圣经，气冲冲地走出了房间。
许多年过去了，年轻人的事业很成功，他建立了美满的家庭，家人生活得很幸福。他意识到他的父亲已经老了，他想，或许他应该去看看他，自从毕业典礼那一天之后，他就没再见过父亲。还没等他做好安排，他收到了一封电报，电报说，他父亲已经去世了，并留下遗嘱，把所有的财产都留给了儿子。他需要马上回家料理一些事情。等他回到家，他的心里突然充满了悲伤与悔恨。
他开始寻找一些他父亲的重要证件，他看到了那本新圣经，它与多年前他扔下它时没什么不同。他含着泪，打开圣经，翻了起来。他正读着，一把车钥匙从一个信封中掉了出来，信封是用胶带固定到圣经的背面的。钥匙上有个标签，标签上面有经销商的名字，他正想从那个经销商那里买那俩他渴望的跑车，标签上的日期，是他毕业典礼的日期，上面还写着：…全款已付。
多少次我们错过了上帝的祝福，就因为它们与我们期待的包装不同。
The Ant and the Contact Lens
Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was very scared， she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear， she put on the gear， took hold of 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 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 on it’s back.
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.”
