Halloween at the Farm: This’s Year’s Pumpkin Message Revealed!

What does an old hymn — reputed to be set to a beer drinking tune and sung by martyrs being led to their death — have to do with Halloween here at Old Stone Well Farm? Well, it inspired the message in this year’s pumpkins.

Yes, the tradition of carving a message in the pumpkins is back, but this time, rather than lighting them on Sofie’s Hill, we go to the back woods for a little old time spooky leaf crunching.

But do not fear, there is nothing spooky here…just an important message of how to live in a world filled with fears and frets.

Come, join me! Click below and transport your self to rural Vermont. What would your inspirational message be if you were to carve one out of pumpkins? Leave a comment. And invite your friends to come to Old Stone Well Farm! There’s plenty of room around the farm table! Blessings!

Have you ever heard of a witch window? I just discovered this Vermont architectural anomaly and the fun folklore behind it. (You can click on the image below and fast forward to the video to the 4:44 mark to get a preview of it)!

But such a window got me thinking about the things we do to “protect” ourselves from harm. The world we live in seems so unsafe at times, but there is what I call an ancient security system that we have forgotten about and it involves God.

In this season of harvest, as our Jewish friends just finished their celebration of Sukkot (or Festival of Booths), I turn to the Hebrew Scriptures — the Psalms and the Book of Deuteronomy — to remember the promises of God to not only provide for us manna from heaven and water from a rock, but to protect our loved ones — to send “an angel of the Lord to encamp” around us.

Drop me a note and let me know your thoughts! What do you think of the witch window? And what can you do in your household to remember always the goodness of God in this world that is so full of darkness and so broken?