The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 296

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 6 into our newest lock down. Where can we go everyone is asking but we all know we are locked down and in our homes, farms and our immediate environments. So what do we do when we meet ourselves in this way? Do we meet a stranger or are we at peace in our company? Here we have a beautiful opportunity and its opportunity is presented in the stillness of silence. Wisdom guides us to embrace those trails that were previously unknown to us or more poignantly able to face. Meeting oneself in this way can be disturbing but once we accept and embrace ourselves it brings us a peace and a calm we didn't know before. We now discover we have a great and beautiful awakening that was hidden within us that was waiting to blossom and find its way to new and hidden places of the heart where before our thoughts were too busy to wonder. Wouldn't it be lovely and healing for us all to regard this lock down as a new beginning that has been quietly forming and waiting until we were all ready to emerge and very soon we will all be home in a new rhythm of life. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your blossoming smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick