The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 299

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 9 of our latest lock down. The mornings are amazing, a white, crisp, unspoilt carpet of snow blankets the farm and gardens, beauty covered up and laid bare. All types of shadows reflect from the snow white carpet. It is a new world, temporary though it may be. It also refers to the dark side of night awaiting a bright new dawn. This type of seasonal change reflects human nature also, our shadowy dark side as well as our bright, light, beautiful side. Does it remind us to get to know ourselves better and to accept ourselves for who we are? As we tread over this beautiful. light carpet do we walk on a new road to discovering and knowing ourselves more freely every day? Opening up and discovering ourselves helps us identify pain and suffering of others especially the people who we care for. If we run away from our pain in our lives it limits us in how we care for others. What we must never do is accept oneself completely. The footprint we leave behind in the snow cannot be retraced and whatever shape this snow takes may we always be free to be who we are meant to be. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your beautiful smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick