The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 150

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 45 out of lock down on this beautiful sunny August morning. We are having a lovely week here at Ballinwillin, tending the fields and hedges and fencing, cutting the pure soft green grass and smelling the roses as their fragrance wafts over the gardens and the joy of people coming to RetrEat in the three gardens of meditation, mindfulness and forgiveness but what really struck me yesterday when we were out in the fields fencing and protecting our beautiful 300 year old beech and oak trees was how majestic, tall and elegant they were and pouring out clean, fresh oxygen to fill our lungs and keep us alive. When we look at a tree we should pause and be mindful and thankful for their gifts to us and maybe a thought for us is that we grow like a tree, tall and proud and grow spiritually and fulfilled as a person and giving like the trees all around us. There is a courtesy in our hearts to love and our of it should rise all that is pure. Today, stop and stare at a tree and say thank you for being good to me. Continue to pray, bless and send healing to each other and wear that beautiful smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick