The Way Through

When my classroom printer stopped communicating with my classroom computer on Saturday afternoon, I knew it was God's message to me to go home. I had finished making all the copies I needed for class the first couple of days of next week and was starting on some picture cards for the next days.

I was able to make it through all the copies I needed even though it ran out of ink part way through. However, I still had a spare cartridge from last year that I could put in. The school had bought two cartridges last year when I ran out of ink.

I was using the printer because the desktop Canon copier in the office had finally run out of black ink. It had said it was low when I started using it, but it made about 50 good copies before it ran out. It lasted long enough to get through all the pages that needed to be copied because they weren't on my computer for printing.

I was using the Canon copier because the big, main copier was out of ink. It had limped through making copies on Friday, barely making the last one I asked for. It did ok on Thursday, when I needed to make copies of worksheets for the 4 classes I learned I had when I arrived that morning. It was my first day back at the school after being gone for the 2-month break.

When I left Friday evening, I wasn't sure how any of those copies were going to be made. My computer was refusing to connect to the Internet, and that's what it seems to need in order to communicate with my printer. I also knew the main copier was out of ink.

God made the way through for me, in answer to my prayers and some others'. When I turned on my computer, it connected to the Internet right away. The main copier still didn't work, but God reminded me of the Canon.

It's another time that He has shown me that He is in control even in the midst of circumstances that seem to be getting out of control.

 

By Jean