She was in the "don't know file"

It was a strange day all considered. It was like a scene from the Twilight Zone (I guess that dates me pretty good). We were trying to take care of the millions of details related to getting a person registered in college for the first time, when we finally arrived at the medical office and discovered that they had no file for Heidi.

Now we had been discovering all day that Heidi was not easy to find in their records. She was falling through the cracks because she does not fit any of their categories in a nice and clean ways. She is technically registered as an International student because she had a foreign address. But she does not qualify as a foreign student because she had a US passport. So it was a confusing day from beginning to end.

But at least everyone had file for Heidi, confused or not. But the medical desk had no file at all for her. 3000 students on file, but no file on Heidi. We had the lady look over and over. She checked twice in every file, but no Heidi. Finally she snapped her fingers and said, "There is one other place it might be." She walked across the room and reached up on a shelf and took down a thin file. Opening it up, we could see one small file was inside . . . and there was Heidi's file! The lady said, "This is the 'I don't know" file."

Now Heidi was so far outside any category the medical department had, that they could not even find a way to file her! Long story short, we got her moved from the "I don't know file" to the "Aderholdt File" where she belonged.

Isn't that what Father does for us? He moves us from the "I don't know file" to the "This is my child" file. And let's face it, that rocks. Moving your kid into college is traumatic enough, without worrying about them losing your kid! Thank God we don't have to worry about that with our heavenly Father.