by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 17, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Thistle
We’ve been having that sort of perfect fall weather when it’s in the 70s, the sky is a brilliant blue and the leaf color is at or near peak. How can you not go outside? So outside we went to hike in Pisgah National Forest with Thistle testing the limits of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 14, 2011 | Miracles, Reading, Thistle, Waiting
We’re continuing to work our way through Saturdays With Stella in my Sunday School class. It’s a book that takes the lessons author Allison Pittman learns in her dog’s obedience classes and applies them to our relationship with our Master–God....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 12, 2011 | Miracles, Reading, Waiting
After writing Monday’s post, it occurred to me that Carlotta Ratts was a sufficiently unusual name that I might be able to track her down via the Internet. So, I did a search and here’s what I found out about the woman who once owned my copy of Longfellows...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 5, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Waiting
Living in the mountains of Western North Carolina, the fall leaf prediction is heralded with shouts of joy or cries of dismay. Kathy Matthews, an associate professor of biology at Western Carolina University has the dubious honor of predicting fall color for our...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 23, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Reading
I saw my first wooly worm on Wednesday. I was walking Thistle and she wanted to examine it pretty closely, so we stopped to consider it. I can report that he had four black rings on his nose, a brown middle and two black rings on his tail. That’s four weeks of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 19, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
It’s been an eventful few weeks. I’ve been to three funerals. A friend was in a car accident that kept her out of work for two weeks. The son of another friend was in a horrible accident that may leave him paralyzed (then again, it may not–God can do...
