I recently had a week to myself. I didn’t travel to any place exotic. Instead, I putzed around my own backyard, exploring places that I often take for granted. I found myself exploring cottages and cabins from a timber framing company, hoping to find inspiration for my prayer chapel. They were too pricy and the waitlist was long.

I then explored an old school house from 1852. It was at that school house that I remembered how we need to learn (or in my case, relearn) that in a bad news world we need to seek the good — the Good News found in God’s Word.

So if you have been feeling like there is just too much heartbreaking news weighing you down, then come and join me here in Vermont for a mini escape from it all!

Pull up a chair, sit with me as I share some wisdom from the Good News and how that school house visit reminded me of America’s pioneer girl, Laura Ingalls Wilders, and how she had once created a go-to list of Scripture verses to go-to in her time of need. I will share some of her favorite verses, along with my own.

I look forward to our visit together, and share with me what verses would be on your list. Then share them with a friend. Better yet, invite them to Old Stone Well Farm, too, for there is always room for one more here in my 18th century home.

Now more than ever we need to join our hearts together in prayer for the world we are living in.

Blessings!