The Doster Family: August 2014

I may have been MIA lately but this blog is not forgotten.
Life has been happening and I have not been putting it in writing.
I am no scrapbooker so this is my only hope at documenting these early years with our kiddos.
To recap.
We moved
We went to Italy
We got pregnant
Trip has been on Sabbatical
and did I mention that we moved?
Oh yea, and we moved.

Moving with kids bites.
A couple months later and I think I feel settled, I think, a little bit.
We moved on up to the burbs to be closer to our Young Life area.
So that we can really root ourselves in the community.
No question that God has been all over this.
There is a lot behind this move, a journey God is taking me on.
The journey is far from over, in fact in a lot of ways I think it's just the beginning.
Both feelings of excitement and an overwhelming feeling of "new beginnings" are both present.
What am I learning?
A lot of different things.
But one that comes to mind is about comfort.
God is teaching me about what it looks like to live an uncomfortable life ( at least at times).
Our life slipped into a comfortable stage for a little while. We were settled in our home, settled in work, no pregnancy, and no newborn baby. Relatively speaking we were "settled" and "comfortable".
And then God tugged on our hearts and nudged and answered some prayers that we have been praying for a long time.
So we moved.
And it hasn't been comfortable.
And we have the least amount of $$ we have ever had,
and it's not comfortable,
and I am pregnant again,
and it's not comfortable.
But we are thrilled at the same time for what is happening in all these areas.
Because my faith journey would be a few steps back if I hadn't felt uncomfortable.
If I had no tears, if I had no questions, if I had everything I needed, I wouldn't feel the great need for a savior.
If you look all over the bible, God's people led very very uncomfortable lives.
Rarely were they ever in "ideal" situations. But this is where life change happened.
I want life change for me and for my family.
I don't know what that looks like day in and day out.
Comfort suites me well,
I am a homebody, I like my routine, I like my old friends that know me, my friends that are like me, I like the familiar, I like predictable,
and God can be found in all these things,
but I think God's greatness is found in the unfamiliar, unpredictable, uncomfortable things, unfamiliar people.
So I am trying to find God in the uncomfortable.
He is showing up in all kinds of ways and I am constantly reminded that God is for me, not against me!

Pictures to recap the last few months.
I am terrible lately about taking pics on a real camera so just iphone pics for now.