The year of 2012 has started off with a bang for the Dobbins crew! In January we survived the ice storm, with the help of friends Blake, Claire and I made it through the 3 days without power while Justin worked 4 overnight shifts to help make sure people weren't freezing to death! Whew!
February brought some hard news that at 11 weeks we had our 2nd miscarriage. I had one around 7 weeks in-between Blake and Claire and never thought that it would happen again...it did. We were amazed at the love and support we had during that time and the love and comfort we found in Jesus in the midst of something so awful. In the midst of this we got to celebrate our WONDERFUL Daughter's 2nd birthday! Where did the time go! Celebrating Claire proved to be such a great reminder to me as to God's kindness and grace, I know with all of my heart that we were meant to have her as a daughter and even though I would have loved to get to have her without having a miscarriage...that wasn't how it worked...just her presence reminds me that Jesus has such a good plan for us and He will finish our family perfectly.
Then came March...we had worked through the initial sadness and were coming out of the fog when all of a sudden BAM! The amazing church that we were lead to 5 years ago had announced in January that they would be planting a church the summer of 2013-who knew if we would go but 1 1/2 years away was such a safe distance that we didn't have to quite even think about it yet. Well March changed that for sure! Because that timeline was moved up to summer of 2012! Justin and I independently felt like we were supposed to go....then God made it clearer and clearer that he was asking us to do this...risk our really good life here...and follow Him to Pullman...
In the beginning and even now I catch myself saying "I have to do this or I have to do that" because Jesus asked me to go. But recently in quiet time I have realized that is not the truth. I GET to do this-I GET to give up things I really love to strengthen my trust in with Jesus has planned for me and my family. There are HARD things about this move-but I trust, even though at times it is hard, that this move IS good and will be good. I GET to let go of things I probably have been clinging a little to tightly to and follow Jesus.
Practically speaking though Jesus IS taking care of us:) I am excited to see how it all plays out...that is where we have been...sorry for our absences:)
