We have been having issues in our office with things we print printing on random printers in different offices. For some reason, the default printers we select and save do not remain the default printers all day long...the save function is not working....so, from time to time throughout the day, we have to check our printer selections and make sure they are correct. I will be SOOOOO happy once this issue is resolved. Anyway, after the long weekend, I wasn't thinking about the printer issues, so I forgot to check my default printer this morning and I started printing off some transcripts I had downloaded in an electronic process. Well, the good thing is, it doesn't take me long to realize the printer is not working because the printer I use is basically on my lap (only a slight exaggeration :) in my office. So, I quickly realized I needed to fix my default printer again. When I went to check it, it had somehow been changed to my label maker printer...weird! Nothing printed, so I thought, "Good, at least I did not waste any paper!" However, later in the day I tried to print some labels and there was this weird thing that printed out on them.....it was the student's entire transcript in this little teeny-tiny rectangle area smaller than a stamp....about the size of the top of my thumb....it was not legible, but you could tell it was someone's transcript....tooo funny! The incredible shrinking transcript. This is one of those things that may only be funny to a few people, but I am saving it at my desk....because it is soooo cute :)
Later in the day, I had the opportunity to read an incredible testimony. One of the highlights of my job is that I get to read the essays the students write on their application about their relationship with Christ. Most are very simple...maybe a sentence or two, but today a student wrote about 7 pages of a testimony and it was pretty amazing. He had been through quite a traumatic childhood, but had come through with a very strong faith. One of the biggest things he said that impacted me was that for a really long time he blamed others for what he had been through. If you knew his story, you may agree that he had every right to blame them...however, when he came to know Christ, he realized he had become who he is because of those circumstances and he no longer needed to blame anyone for it because he was exactly where God wanted him to be....somehow, his blame turned to praise.
It is easy to want to blame others for the hardships we struggle through...(I can hear a song right now..."every generation blames the one before")...The young man and C.S. Lewis can say it way more eloquently than I can! What an encouragement! When I read those kind of essays....I am very excited for what God has planned for the days ahead and I know that God is working in the lives of our youth. He is teaching them and He is manifesting Himself to them! He is faithful to all generations!
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