Report Cards
A miracle happened to me at my school this
week! Praise to God! I am the report card administrator at
my school, which means I import all comments and grades from
all teachers into a program which prints the report cards of
our students. There are strict rules about this in Ontario
where I live and everything has to be done by the letter.
Each report card is 2 pages long. Well, early December, I
printed all the report cards for term 1. On the day where
report cards were due, a few teachers asked me to make a few
changes in the report cards they had written. When I went to
my computer and tried to perform what they asked me, the
report card program froze and I had to restart my computer.
To my horror the report card data base had become corrupt.
Trying to find a solution with our Tech support at our Board
in the next few weeks, I was made aware that I had to start
from scratch again. All information from term 1 would be
lost (luckily the report cards of term1 were printed out and
thus we had a hard copy of each one of them). However, all
grades of term 1 from all our classes would have to be
entered again by the Administrator, as they need to show up
in term 2 and 3 respectively.
I had prayed and hoped I would be able to finish this before
my Christmas break. This week on Monday I finally was able
to start entering the grades from all the classes. To my
horror, I could only input 2 classes that day! We have 13
classes! How would I be able to finish all this by Friday?
On Tuesday again I was able to input only 2 classes. On
Wednesday it was even worse, I could only input 1 class! In
3 days I had entered only 5 classes and I had only 2 days to
enter 8 classes! Impossible in human terms, but possible in
God's terms! Praise be to His name. Although I had tried to
work as hard as I could the first 3 days, I was relying on
my own power to finish the work. I left this burden in God's
hands on Wednesday evening. He told me to trust Him.
Amazingly the next day I was able to enter the grades of 4
1/2 classes! Impossible! But it still happened. On Friday
(today) I was able to enter the remaining 3 1/2 classes. All
report cards are done, just before the holidays.
My friend, if you ever face an impossibility, don't try to
handle this on your own power. you won't succeed, believe
me. Leave your worries to God and ask for His guidance. Only
He will make the impossible be possible. What an awesome God
we serve! Thank you Lord for being my friend and Saviour!
All glory belongs to You!
Rob Chaffart
(Received on Friday December 21, 2001)
