"Be Still"

On April 21st, the last professional day of the 2009-2010 school year, the meeting started out with "some of you won't have jobs next school year". I knew right away I would be one of those hearing the news personally, since I only had 2 years full-time with the district. The meeting was held in the same auditorium as our church meets. Every week since then sitting in service was a reminder of being surplussed. Not that I could forget it on the other days of the week. Then July 1st came and I was put on the reduced in force category. I started applying to other districts. I actually had an interview for Friday that I canceled. As I have been praying about working it seemed like I was hearing God tell me to "be still". Today I was offered a job (really there are 2 campus openings in my job category and I had my choice of which campus). I chose the one closer to home, about 15 minutes away, and the school has been excelling for the past 3 years. I barely got off the phone with HR and the principal called to welcome me. She sounded really nice. The job is 35 hours per week, which is more than I want, but now that I am a district employee again I can post for jobs that are in the same job class but fewer hours, I don't know when something will come up, but I feel better about at least having a position to start the school year with and to work with. Please keep praying for us!