I have just 6 days left in Sanborn Cottage, this house I have called Home for 7 years.

Sanborn Cottage: an Oasis in the City

In this house, we lost our first child, Peter, to miscarriage.

In this house, we are raising two amazing miracle children – awesome gifts from a Kind and Loving Father God.

In this house, we have welcomed friends and family from the Four Corners of the World.

In this house, we owned three dogs – our furbabies that we loved and spoiled while we waited for our children to arrive.

This house has been a refuge in the storms. A place of laughter and of tears. A place of triumph and failure.

The rapturous laughter of Children fills it’s rooms, where the tears of a Childless Mother and Father once flowed.

This house is the only Home my children have known.

And in just 6 days we’ll load up the truck, lock the doors for the last time and embark on a Brand New Adventure.

In Thai, the word for Adventure can be translated two ways:
การผจญภัย – GaanPajonPai – which literally means “Face the Disaster”
การฝ่าอันตราย – GaanFaaAntdarai – which literally means “Undergo the Danger”

It’s a journey into the Unknown. The part of the road that I see in front of me is straight and sure. But  there is a bend in the road at the Foothills, and then the road disappears into the steep Mountains of Change and Danger.

We will face our Adventure Head On. Knowing that we are safe no matter which way the road turns, how steep the cliffs are, or what storms lay ahead of us.

Because God is my Rock and my Fortress.

I lift my eyes up and see the (scary) mountain, who will help me?
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and Earth.
He will help me scale this mountain, he will not let my foot slip.
He will not let me stumble and fall.
(based on Psalm 121, paraphrased as my prayer today).