House/Job Relocation Update

About a month ago while I was at High School Camp in Missouri, my Momma got a call from a new hospital in Kearney. They had somehow heard about how she had set up the entire pharmacy under a director position for the Syracuse Hospital, and they wanted her to do the same for their new hospital. So that Thursday Momma called me and the first thing out of her mouth was, "What do you think about moving to Kearney?" I started crying. I didn't want to move again. That would have been my 3rd high school, and my 4th new school. She went to the interview the week after, and they offered her the job and more than what my parents make combined for a salary. So they started looking into options. If we were going to move to Kearney, Dad would have to stay with the Omaha Fire Department for five more years until he can retire. (Technically he "retired" from the department when we moved to Ogallala, but that is a long and confusing story.) So if we were to move to Kearney, Dad would have to get an apartment in Omaha, and stay in Omaha for one week and then in Kearney for another week. This really upset me. I hate when Dad's not around, we don't function properly without the entire family. I didn't want to go to a huge Kearney school, so Mom and I started looking into Private Schools in the area. Kearney Catholic was the only one we could find. We didn't even talk to Dad about that one... the answer would have been something like "Over my dead body." So Kearney Public it was... I looked into it, they don't even have a softball team! I was angry. I would have had to quit Dance Team and Student Council here in Syracuse, and I would have to leave my wonderful church. I really struggled with having faith during this whole situation. There were so many nights of crying myself to sleep. I didn't read my bible at all during that whole week. Finally one night I broke down completely I was so ashamed that I wasn't having faith and that I wasn't in the Word. I prayed and read like crazy the next two weeks. After Mom and Dad got back from Minnesota (they went to go pick up our new camper), they called a family meeting. (I was scared. The last time we had a family meeting was the night that the City Council decided to "eliminate the fire chief position". It was the night that Dad told us that there was a very slim chance that we would stay in Ogallala.) Anyway... Dad announced that they had decided that we were not going to move to Kearney. He said that it would put Mom in too much of a "family leader role", and that he didn't want to put any of us into a situation where our family wasn't being held together in a biblical way. They also announced that we received an offer on our house. However, the sale was contingent on the buyers selling their house. So we are waiting for that to happen! We have finally found a house that would work for our family. The main problem with this house is that it is in town. We are NOT town people. We are loud and obnoxious. There is a reason that we live way out in the country with our acreage surrounded by a thick tree line. This house is in the town of Unadilla, which is just five miles west of Syracuse. It is closer to church, closer to school, and closer to Omaha for Dad. So we are just waiting on the sale of our buyer's house.Through this whole thing I have learned that I need to make sure that I am turning all of my worries over to the Lord, and putting my complete faith in Him. I also need to make sure that I stay in the Word when things like this come up. Thankfully, I have wonderful people in my life who encourage me to do these things on a daily basis. I am very thankful for those amazing people.