by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 10, 2011 | Reading, Waiting
I love to give used books a good home. I try to support my favorite living authors by buying their books, but, well, Charles Dickens probably isn’t worrying about his sales. And my copy of David Copperfield from 1850 is so lovely with its blue boards printed...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 7, 2011 | Reading, Waiting
Your social life. Sitting in front of a computer dealing with imaginary people can feel incredibly rich, but it doesn’t get you out of the house much. Your, ahem, backside. Again, sitting in front of a computer does little to enhance your physique. I expected...
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 | Oct 3, 2011 | Friends, Waiting
I’m pretty busy. Work, writing, church, family, friends–that sweet little dog. Oh, and I try to do the laundry once in a while. Dusting I let slide. But sometimes I have to stop and consider what it is that I’m busy about. And what I might be letting...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 26, 2011 | Thistle, Waiting
Thus far in Thistle’s ten months of living, we’ve only found one thing that can completely wear her out. It’s a little boy who, I think, weighs about the same as she does. We’ve gotten that little dog tired before, but a five-year-old boy is...
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...
