God is truly good all of the time!

So here’s the update! The past few days and weeks have been a rollercoaster ride for the Griggs family. There have been so many questions and uncertainties that we have been feeling very fragile. But through it all God has shown Himself to be more than faithful. Tomorrow our renters are going to sign the final paperwork to lease our house. They are the family who showed interest within 45 minutes of listing the house. No one else has even gotten past initial inquiry on it. God certainly knows what he is doing. They are moving in on the 12th of August so it’s a very good thing that we got everything out already. Michael and I worked our selves sick getting all our stuff out and the place clean in a week and a half. I never would have thought we could do it. We do still have to empty the stuff from our garage. We were keeping the furniture there until we have to move it. We have had several people offer their garages for temporary storage until we move to our townhouse and we have no shortage of friends here with trucks☺.

Also tomorrow is Michael’s second interview at the seminary. They have already said he is hired but they need to still go over the logistics. They have actually already sent work to Michael to see what he is capable of doing. He will be the marketing director and content manager for the communications dept. That involves media liaison, school paper, advertisement, vendor relations etc. Michael is so thrilled about it. He can’t wait to get in there and start working. His classes start the same day as Megan’s classes. I am still working on getting myself enrolled in the college at Southwestern. I called today for an update and they informed me that I needed high school transcripts as well as all my college ones. I’m going to have to work at a fast pace to meet the admissions deadline now.

After a tense weekend of dealing with a housing assignment error, we have been assigned to our townhouse. It is amazing how exciting it is to us to be moving to a 995 sq ft townhouse. We have been driving by to check on the progress maintenance is making on it. They needed to redo a lot after the previous tenants moved out. It is going to be 5 minutes to Michael’s office, 5 minutes to the pool, gym, workout facility, park, fishpond and right next to loads and loads of kids. It seems like having lots of kids is pretty popular with the seminary types☺.

August will be a tight month for us but we know for certain that God will provide for all of our needs. We are currently staying with friends who are gracious enough to let us crash their place for a few weeks. They live on some property 30 minutes from our “old” house. They have 2 homes on the property, one for them and one for their parents. Their parents are away on missions until August 17th…perfect again eh? So we can move right from here to our new place. Now we are just praying that the townhouse gets finished on time and even…maybe…if it’s not pushing it to much…early!

Thanks for all your prayers!!!

Just a reminder - Rebecca would kill me if she knew that I was posting this, but PLEASE do not forget that tomorrow, August 1st is her birthday. I think she would love a bunch of phone calls since access to email is limited. Again, thanks for all of your support. Michael