The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 357

Good afternoon everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 67 of our latest lock down. Last night as a family we sat around an open fire and had a good old discussion about many things but in particular the present health condition of The Mindful Farmer and I could not help remember that this was how we always dealt with issues and problems in the old days back home in West Limerick. The open fire was the counselling centre and we all had our say and issues were dealt with and we got on with life the following day. Nowadays many houses have no fireplaces, no counselling centre, no cinders to remind us in the morning that our problems had been dealt with and many of them were not real problems just built up images of nothing. I know people will say "what about fossil fuels" but we only burn fallen trees that a many hundreds of years old and the ashes return to the soil and the flames drink the air and release in us all that is enduring and breathe a new and refreshing urgency into our life where the flames have burnt away all that is false. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Sunday smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick