Hi y’all! Welcome to New Song In My Heart! My name is Sarah Ludlow and this my Journey. My prayer is for my story to encourage and bring hope into your life, so that you too will find a new song in your heart to sing. My hope and prayer is that this is a safe place for everyone who shares this journey with me. We all are in different stages of life. Some have just found our Savior, and for the first time is experiencing the freedom of Christ. Others have been on the journey for awhile, but may have just started healing from past pains. Still others are dealing with fresh rawness, and its too deep for words. Wherever you are in life, whatever you are going through, I pray this blog is an encouragement to each lady who stumbles upon it.

This is my story, this is my song: I grew up knowing about God, but not knowing who He really is. I accepted Jesus Christ into my life at the age of 9, but my life wouldn’t grow for Him until much, much later. At a young age, writing, and music became apart of who I am. I wrote often in my journals, and played every song I knew on the piano until my fingers hurt. At the age of 12 I got terribly sick from food poisoning, which caused self image issues, even after I got better. I was also struggling in school, and this added on top of the confusion rising in my heart. I fell into a deep pit of depression, which would last the majority of my teen life. My journals became my refuge, for I didn’t have any close friends, and I wasn’t confident enough to talk with anybody in my family. I was born an introvert, so this didn’t help much either. At age 15, my life for Christ suffered greatly. I couldn’t understand how God could love me, and why he would listen to a broken heart. So I stopped praying and reading my Bible. At 17 I went to a youth conference, it was there the Lord started working on my heart, and I got back into His word. In 2019 I graduated homeschool high school. God gave me 2 solid silent years to get back into His Word, but by the time I was 21 I developed a legalistic mindset to appease the ones around me. In June of 2021 I asked the Lord to open opportunities around me, so I could step out of my comfort zone. It was just a couple days later the Lord lead me to a Christian Pregnancy help center, which I would serve at for 4 years, first as a volunteer childcare worker, then work my way up as a part time office assistant. It was through the staff and volunteers there that I first saw and Got to know God. The real God, not one someone made up. Through these sweet ladies who mentored me, and almost losing my best friend, because of my judgmental ways, I allowed God to take a hold of my life. Legalism lost it grip, as I started growing more and more in Christ. In February of 2023 I gave my life completely over to Christ for Him to do as He wished. This brought about 2 years of twist and turns of events, which God used to mold and shape me. In November of 2024, I got rebaptized, symbolizing my old life was dead, and now i was following Gods ways, instead of my own. In October 2024 I met Charles Ludlow, my best friend and the love of my life. We got married in March of 2025. This is my story, and the Journey God has put me on. I do not pity it, for through my personal struggles, God has given me a heart to make a difference. He has allowed me to use my love for writing and photography, to start blogging. I praise Him for all He does! God turned the rawness of my heart into a song. He will do the same for you. Join me on this Journey, and let us learn together about the ways of God, and find freedom in Him!

Just a girl who loves Jesus,

Sarah Ludlow Psalm 40:1-3