by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 26, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
You know the feeling. You experienced it when you were a kid. The anticipation is over. The presents have been opened. The cousins aren’t coming over for hours and all those exciting gifts suddenly seem less, well, exciting. It’s 10 a.m. on Christmas...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 23, 2011 | Miracles
I love the cello. I love it so much I took lessons for two years while in my 30s (old dog, new tricks!). While I did learn enough to play a simple (VERY simple) song at a friend’s wedding, I realized two things. 1) If I wanted to play tolerably well, I would...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 19, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
When I was a kid I can remember intensely longing for two things: a horse and a sister. I had no preference for an older or younger sister, though obviously if my parents were going to give her to me, she’d have to be younger. I don’t remember badgering...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 16, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Waiting
I’ve had a Christmas tree every year for the past 40 years. A LIVE Christmas tree lit and covered in ornaments rich with memories (not so much when I was one, but you get the idea). And then came Christmas 2011. And I pondered whether I really wanted to go to...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 5, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
This past weekend we cleaned out my mother-in-law’s attic. There were a few pieces of furniture, Christmas decorations, blankets, hats (which I tried on), a screen door (!), luggage, boxes of cancelled checks from the 70s and a box of my husband’s boyhood...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 23, 2011 | Friends, Miracles
Turkey, pie, family tensions, shopping, Christmas decorations, time away from work, kids out of school . . . the next few days will encompass quite a bit. It’s SO easy to forget that in 1789 President George Washington declared the last Thursday in November to...
