The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 232

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 12 of our new lock down. Another cold, wet and windy morning on the farm this morning. Winter has definitely arrived and as we enter winter, we come to the Sabbath time of year again when nature rests and now during these testing pandemic times and in our anxiety to go places and do things in our so termed “busy lives” we may miss many things in the world about us that we were used to doing. During the month of November my parents would always give something up. Something they really liked and even though they were ordinary, simple, farming people they would increase prayer and reduce food intake and giving to the sacred. If we do similar for this month we can restore our openness to grace to make us alive to the miracles around us. Mam would often say “there is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence”. Continue to pray, bless and send healing to each other and wear your smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick