The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 341

Good afternoon everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 51 of our latest lock down. Well The Mindful Farmer is back at home under strict medical conditions and medications. It is lovely to be back in your own bed but I must say that the team at Clonmel hospital were amazing. What particularly shone through was the kindness and sincerity. These people aren't trained this way. It is natural for them. What a wonderful vocation they all have. They will always be in my prayers. Today as I lie here in my bed I look out my bedroom window and today I am looking at different mountains, the Galtee mountains, and I ponder on my dark invitation to my present illness. It was a frontier I was not expecting and suddenly my old life seems distant. I must start a new life and I pray I will be given the chance. Nothing before this has left me so isolated and lost. I know when the volcanic shock subsides in me my spirit will return to balance and create a space in my heart and will learn to embrace this illness as my teacher who has suddenly arrived to open up my life to a new world. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick