by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 6, 2011 | Uncategorized, Waiting
I wrote the following devotional that appeared in The Journey Christian Newspaper today. A new publishing credit! Working for a non-profit children’s ministry means I often get to feel fulfilled by what I do for a living. Children come to us because they are...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 25, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
Listening to the Easter sermon yesterday, something struck me for the first time. After Jesus had been placed in the tomb, the chief priests and Pharisees asked Pilate to post a guard there because they knew Jesus claimed he would rise from the dead on the third day....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 22, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
What’s good about it? That’s what I used to think. The day Christ was crucified. The day he was nailed to a cross and mocked, ridiculed and tortured. The day the most wonderful person to ever live died. Good? C’mon. But that was before. Now I live in...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 18, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. The service at my church featured our children coming down the aisle waving palm branches and then doing a series of songs and readings. It was alternately moving and, well, funny. Three of the children performed...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 13, 2011 | Waiting
So I was trying to parallel park in town the other day and it occurred to me that I approach publishing the same way I do parking in a tight spot on the side of the street. I often flub it, but I always go in thinking I’ll do it right. I can parallel park, but I...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 11, 2011 | Reading, Waiting
So, generally speaking, you probably don’t walk up to strangers and say, “Can you tell me what you’d change about my clothes?” Or “How would you improve my personality?” Well, it feels about the same to send the first chapter of my...