I'm so sorry to hear this and I can imagine how you and your family must be suffering. you mentioned your mothers faith in God, I hope that she holds on to that because despite weather its obvious or not he's at work in this situation. will he save their house? does'nt look like it, so whats he up to? well, my guess is that he's (like always) trying to 1. trying to have a relationship with you and show you his love. 2. waiting to turn what was meant for evil into good . his perspective is so much diffrent than ours. 3. sometimes he has something even better he wants to bless you with so we should give thanks IN all things (not for all things) and heres the hardest part...to trust him. Perhaps this is not really what you want to hear right now,I understand that...I just felt compelled to say it to you and hope that it might be of some comfort. He truly works in mysterious ways so you can never count him out, one last thing... you know what you're supposed to be doing,just do it and all of this will be worked out to your benifit, (you're one of his children right?)