Sarah

This story is a little strange, but it's tempered with enough love and kindness that you probably won't be too creeped out. Before I share it with you there are two important things to know about the Kurt family:
1. We are very inclusive about adding people to our family
2. We love good stories

A few months back, a person named Sarah started reading our family's blogs. She left some nice comments on them and started e-mailing back and forth with a few of us. Her and Susan got to know each other more and more as they e-mailed back and forth and Sarah's husband was going to meet up with Jon down in Memphis when he was there for business. So far, not too weird, right?

This Tuesday, my brother Dan answered the door and standing there was Sarah. She announced, "Hi, I'm Sarah, you must be Dan." Dan's jaw dropped. The first questions we all thought was, "How did she find us and why is she here?" the next was, "Is she a crazy stalker who kill us in our sleep, poison our food and kidnap our children?"

Sarah had been praying that God would bring people along side our family to help us out. She said that she felt like God was telling her that she could be that help for our family. She said it wasn't her style to just show up like this, but after ignoring what she thought God was telling off a few times, she called her husband who told her that it must be God, because it wasn't the kind of thing Sarah would do. She jumped in the car and drove five hours by herself and showed up at my parent's house unannounced.

While she's been here, Sarah has offered herself up and she has cooked, cleaned, written thank you cards and anything else that needed to be done. She got a chance to see the Kurt Family first-hand in all it's glory, got a chance to sit with my Mom and see her life celebrated with our family. All in all, Sarah seems to have a great heart and is a very kind, loving person.

Is it all still a little creepy? Yeah, but not as much. I personally could never show up at a stranger's house and do what she did, but she has done a great job of hanging in the background and offering herself up to help and serve wherever she could. We're most thankful that she didn't steal any of the children or our wallets. We probably won't know if she wrote down our credit card numbers until much later. :)