More excerpts from The Journey

Friday March 21^st 2014 Brett and I had decided to fast together that day for some answers. What now? Brett still felt gloomy and sad, and I was giving constant pep talks of I know it will all be ok and the Lord will make it work. I did know it would all be ok, I still wasn’t worried AT ALL. Brett hadn’t heard anything from anyone yet. He got an e mail from school about more residency programs that were opening up. He was reading through the list and North Carolina caught his eye. This is the moment, Brett says, that his whole attitude turned around and he felt ok and not worried for the first time. He felt acceptance that things were as they should be and we would be fine. He, and I, had a really good feeling about NC. So he sent out an application and called, hoping for another chance at something. Friday was a really good day. We broke our fast and we both felt really good about everything that was going to happen. The Lord would take care of us. We knew we could handle whatever the Lord had planned. We would be just fine. And then it was. That weekend we got some REALLY exiting news. The director had invited Brett out for an interview and he wanted me to come with!! This was it. This was the answer. The Lord had something bigger and better and it was all working out. With LOTS of help from friends and last minute arrangements to leave the kids for 3 days, we drove 16 hours and had roughly 6ish hours to make a good impression, and then 16 hours home again. The 3 days felt like forever, but the guy loved Brett. We totally knew he was on our side and we felt elated the whole trip home. Now the director had to convince the 2 other guys who helped make the decision on which 2 residents they would take. This totally had to be it for us, it was such a wonderful opportunity to be apart of!! We were stoked!! We expected good news very shortly.