Our Judd Family Miracle

While we have been living in New Mexico, Cory has been doing an internship for the University of New Mexico in their Compliance department. Sometime around May, Cory's boss approached Cory and told him that come December they wanted to hire Cory. We were relieved to know that Cory would have a job upon graduation. So we were kind of preparing ourselves for living in New Mexico for a little while longer.

At the beginning of October, Cory's boss came to him and told them that because of budget cuts they wouldn't have the money to hire him on. Cory and I were worried sick! The economy is so bad right now and we didn't know what we were going to do. Cory looked at jobs in his field on a daily basis and there were only 9 positions in the WHOLE country, majority of them being back east. So he started applying. One night we were laying in bed and we were both so worried about what we were going to do. We were thinking of our options "We could move back to Utah and I could teach until you find something", "We could move to Vernal and Cory could work in the oil field until we found something". Needless to say we didn't sleep well that night.

The next day Cory got an email, saying that a position had opened up at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. That is the first job in Utah that Cory had ever seen come up in his emails. Cory applied right away. I was praying that he would get it cause my mom had been so sick I knew I needed to get home and help my family. We really weren't expecting to hear anything from them, but the next day I was in the kitchen and heard a phone vibrating. I looked around and it was Cory's, I didn't know he had left it home that day. It was a Utah number so I answered it.

"Hi this is Megan from Utah Valley University. I am looking for a Cory Judd."

"He isn't here right now, this is his wife, can I take a message."

"Yeah we are wanting to do a phone interview with Cory for a position he applied for."

Jumping up and down "Does tomorrow at noon work?"

"Yeah that would be great!"

"Ok, thanks!"

I was astonished that he got a phone call. I was smiling from ear to ear! Seeing that Cory's phone was at home I wasn't able to call him and tell him so I had to wait 4 long hours to share the news!

The next day he had his interview at 12:00. Cory was on the line with 5 other people asking him questions. He felt like it went well and asked them if there was a time frame that he could expect to hear anything. They said "probably not for a week, we have a lot of people to interview." So with that Cory got off the phone.

At 2:00, Cory got a phone call from UVU saying they wanted to fly him up next weekend for an interview. Within 20 minutes Cory was on the phone with UVU's travel agent and he had his flight booked.

I was leaving for Utah in two days to go help my mom, so I would be up there when he interviewed.

He came up and we took him to his interview, hoping for the best but trying our hardest not to get our hopes up. When I went to get him from the interview he was holding a paper in his hand and had a smirk on his face. He got in the car and started to tell me every little detail of the interview. I asked what the paper was and he said wait until my story is done. Well Cory is quite the story teller so I waited and waited.

They had offered him the job on the spot and asked him to sign the contract! I was amazed! I cried. I could not believe!

I have never felt the Lord guide my life so strongly as I did in that instance. Not only did we want to be in Utah, we NEEDED to be in Utah for my family. I am so grateful that Lord watched over us and gave us our own Judd Family Miracle.