by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 1, 2012 | Miracles, Thistle, Waiting
It’s the first day of February and daffodils are already blooming in the neighborhood. My hostas are sending tightly furled leaves poking up through the soil and I saw a buttercup smiling up at me from the dead lawn last week. My head tells me it’s too...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 25, 2012 | Miracles, Nature, Thistle
Last weekend I took Thistle for a walk in the woods. Our next door neighbor has 40 acres, much of it on the mountain that rises behind our house, and we are welcome to ramble there. The next neighbor beyond that property also has a chunk of land that we walk on....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 6, 2012 | Miracles, Reading, Thistle
Happy Epiphany! Today is the last day of Christmas–the day we celebrate the Wise Men’s visit to the Christ child. The day we celebrate our Lord’s revelation to man. So it’s only appropriate to have an epiphany today. Plan on it. Aim for it. Be...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 28, 2011 | Thistle
On Sunday, Thistle and I were walking off some of our Thanksgiving excess when she spotted a green, plastic cup on the side of the road. She often snags bits of trash and either shred them on the spot, or takes them home in hopes of shredding them there at her...
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....
