by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 11, 2013 | Food, Miracles, Nature, Reading
Last week I was sitting at the dining room table typing away on my laptop when I glanced out the French doors to my right. (Those doors and the view of the creek outside are one of the reasons I love this writing spot.) And there was a cat sitting there. But not just...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 9, 2013 | Reading, Waiting
Last Sunday was the start of the new season of Downton Abbey. Yay! I had a few moments of frustration due to a misprint in the local TV lineup (it came on at 9 p.m., not 8 p.m. as listed), then settled in for two hours of catching up with the Granthams and their...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 7, 2013 | Reading
I’m so glad someone thought to do this. There are simply some words we need to STOP using. They’re overused, ineptly used, and to paraphrase Inigo Montoya, sometimes they just don’t mean what people think they mean. So here you go, the list of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 31, 2012 | Family, Miracles, Reading, Waiting
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. The idea of waiting until January 1 to start doing something I ought to be doing anyway just bugs me. If I need to start a new habit–what’s wrong with now? That’s what I said two weeks ago when the small...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 12, 2012 | Reading, Waiting
Last week my mom asked me if I actually read all those books I download for free on Kindle. Well, I try to. And I just finished one and it was fabulous. Bonnie Grove’s Talking to the Dead is about a young woman who is suddenly widowed. She’s slammed by...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 9, 2012 | Friends, Miracles, Reading
Last night I was reading about the time Mary poured perfume on Jesus’ feet and wiped it with her hair (John 12). I’ll confess in the past I thought mostly about how icky it would be for me to have perfume in my hair. (Not a fan of perfume OR hair...
