My Last Thai Post

I feel really blessed to be able to say that I feel like over the course of the last 50 days I was able to do everything that I desired to do in Chiang Mai before I left.  I felt like I had good closure with my co-workers, my family and friends.  It’s such a blessing to be able to leave a place with no regrets and a heart that is so full.  A group of friends met for

 one last bake and bite breakfast and then drove me to the airport. It was hard giving those final hugs to these friends who had become more than just good friends – but family.  It reminded me of saying goodbye to my dad at the Indianapolis airport two years prior and how my heart hurt saying goodbye and embarking into the unknown. I don’t think I realized that after this two year contract was up, that I would cry leaving this place that became my first home as an adult. A city that will always be so special to me, not because it is some “exotic” city on the other side of the globe from America – but because it was the first city I made my own. 

I look back and can only give all praise and glory back to Jesus for the past two years and how incredible they have been.  It is only through him, and by him that I made it to the end of these two years, with being able to honestly say that I enjoyed every moment.  You all who are reading should also be able to testify of Lord’s grace and provision in my life because the Sara Zimmer who I was before I left for Thailand couldn’t have done this on her own.  I was the small town girl, the girl who had no desire to live further than driving distance away from my parents, who never had a heart for international people and no desire to know or love them.

But can I tell you – taking those scary steps of listening to the Lord say, “I want you to go,” in October of 2006, have been the best way that I have learned of the Lord’s character and the adventure he wants all of our lives to have.  I wasn’t expecting Thailand, but that happened to be the perfect place for him to call me to show me that he is an adventurous God that doesn’t just want us to live in mediocrity.  He had to take me literally as far away from home as possible for me to figure that out.  Over the past to years I feel like I have been able to catch a better glimpse of his heart for his children. How he is a loving father that wants to take his kids out for the ride of their lives, and I hope that this is just beginning of the ride.  The thing I learned most about his character is that he is a God of provision, and a God who loves to take care of all of our details – if we let him, and believe that he cares about them.  I find that so many times I miss out on the blessings because I think that I can do it on my own, but when I first ask him to take care of the little things – he does, and he does it in abundance.

I hope that this isn’t the end of this blog just because I am not living in some crazy place, but that it is always a place where I can share of the things that Jesus has done in my life and how he has called us all on a great adventure.  I am fearful that as I adjust to living in America, that I will forget to trust him for adventure and his provision – but I am sure that as long as I get to know him better he with stretch and change me in new ways and I will learn new things about this great God I have fallen in love with.

 This picture was my last day in Bloomington before I left for Thailand in July 2007

This picture is from my last day in Thailand, It is just amazing how the Lord provided new friends to add to the old. A lot happened in between...

So, I am back in America now beginning a new adventure that has been incredible so far, and I am excited to see where This Road continues to lead…

“God is good all the time, all the time, God is good.”