I lost my career

Thank you for the opportunity to get "this" out there. I feel lost and abandoned by God. I was a Professor at a prestigious university until I was denied tenure. Of course, I feel that it was the wrong decision. On the other hand, I was pretty tired of the politics and the number of changes that had taken place since I arrived. I am blessed with a wonderful husband -who has a wonderful job and with a beautiful daughter. But I don't have peace with this decision. I feel abandoned by God because I prayed over my decision to go teach at that university and this is the way it turns out?! I don't know what God wants or expects me to do with myself - while waiting for my daughter to come home from school. What do I do now. I am still an intelligient, creative person - still relatively young, in good health. - but I have no direction - I have prayed for direction, structure to my life, but God has turned a deaf ear. I am blessed in many ways, but a big part of my life is empty and lacks direction.