The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary 317
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 27 of our latest lock down. This morning the neighbourhood is cold with the winter freeze but soon we will experience the death of winter and the birth of spring, but also this morning in Ballinwillin we mourn the death and passing of Joe Mulcahy our neighbour, a legend in the music business and a founding member of the famous Maurice Mulcahy Band. A band that gave huge enjoyment to thousands of people worldwide. This morning our prayers are with his family, friends and neighbours. Now destiny calls Joe to a place of music where his trumpet will sound again for all our spiritual enjoyment, where his heart will always remain generous, all heavenly doors will open to his musical light as you now quietly befriend your death and you have no need to fear. You are among your own orchestra in the big band with your pure white suit you are now equal to your destiny and nearer to Earths heart. Rest in peace Joe. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 426
This morning as I look through my window of wonder I think peacefully as I gaze at the stillness of the morning grass and I thank the earth for teaching me to be as humble as the beautiful blossoms that radiate from the garden and for teaching me not to be afraid
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. This morning as I look through my window of wonder I think peacefully as I gaze at the stillness of the morning grass and I thank the earth for teaching me to be as humble as the beautiful blossoms that radiate from the garden and for teaching me not to be afraid, like the big oak tree, to stand on your own even if you are alone at times and for teaching me that all human beings have their limitations so rest easy with them and fold into the arms of Mother Nature for this weekend and always. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Saturday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 425
In such times there is an unusual beauty in having friends who are profoundly faithful to us. There are many frontiers in our lives that we could never endure or cross without the inner sheltering of these friends. To be a true friend I believe you have to experience the trails and difficulties of life and you will notice that their true spirituality draws no attention to itself. These are simply pure and gentle people with a shy beauty within their sacred lives.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. Yesterdwy while travelling and listening to the radio, Ryan Tubridy's callers were dreading things opening up again and having to put up with the falsity of some people in their lives and then I thought to myself how lucky am I to have such good and real friends, especially during the last 14 months. In such times there is an unusual beauty in having friends who are profoundly faithful to us. There are many frontiers in our lives that we could never endure or cross without the inner sheltering of these friends. To be a true friend I believe you have to experience the trails and difficulties of life and you will notice that their true spirituality draws no attention to itself. These are simply pure and gentle people with a shy beauty within their sacred lives. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Friday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 424
Today, May 13th, is always a very special day in our lives as it is our son Johns birthday and it is always an amazing blessing to any family when a child is born
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 424Thursday 13th May 2021Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. Today, May 13th, is always a very special day in our lives as it is our son Johns birthday and it is always an amazing blessing to any family when a child is born to that family and your prayers and hopes for any child is to be happy and that they would blossom with kindness, vitality, patience and good health and that they would always place music in the heart of others. To this date John has certainly done all of the above and as my own parents always reminded us "honour thy father and thy mother" a commandment that will never grow old. Happy birthday son and have a wonderful, joyous day. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Thursday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 423
You know well you don't have to practice to enjoy the dawn chorus, the sunrise over the mountains or the sunset on your favourite beach.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. There is no doubting that mindfulness plays a huge role in my daily life and can in your life too if you practice it a little bit every day just don't over complicate it and make work out of it. You know well you don't have to practice to enjoy the dawn chorus, the sunrise over the mountains or the sunset on your favourite beach. What do we need to learn about the beauty of a garden full of flowers or the deep blue of the sky, just be quiet and silent and inhale all. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Wednesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 422
My home is my happy place and where I love to be. If I am ever sad or feeling down it enfolds me in its embrace and steals away my gloomy thoughts and fills my heart with grace.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. I feel very lucky during this pandemic to have my farm and gardens as our sanctuary. My home is my happy place and where I love to be. If I am ever sad or feeling down it enfolds me in its embrace and steals away my gloomy thoughts and fills my heart with grace. Many of us have our special places to find peace where our weeds of old just shrivel up and seeds of hope get sown. This place of mine has many corners which offers our family and tourists a peaceful base where all souls find sanctuary in our special happy place. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Tuesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 421
I hope that all the people in our beautiful country will be well on their way to living a life of freedom, a freedom that will allow us to open up our wings again and fly into new voyages, allowing us to loose 14 months of emptiness and allowing a new and vibrant life to awaken again.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. Well, The mindful farmer received his Covid19 vaccine yesterday and is feeling well and happy that the process of safety has begun. I must now wait for 12 weeks to get my next shot and by that stage I hope that all the people in our beautiful country will be well on their way to living a life of freedom, a freedom that will allow us to open up our wings again and fly into new voyages, allowing us to loose 14 months of emptiness and allowing a new and vibrant life to awaken again. We deserve this new freedom that our hearts have been screaming for and now it is time to soar high again. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Monday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 420
We only have today to live which gives us a freedom that no riches can give.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. The 9th of May has a significance for The Mindful Farmer this year as I am looking forward to our International Mindfulness meeting. This meeting will happen on Zoom and like minded people from all over the world will join in and share moments of mindfulness and blessings with each other. These meetings are very nourishing where we radiate joy all around us so why wait until tomorrow? We only have today to live which gives us a freedom that no riches can give. So, on this Sunday, continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Sunday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 419
There is something in all our hearts and souls that depends on joy and when someone brings joy to your heart you feel warm, understood and seen.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. When i looked out my window of wonder this morning I was overwhelmed to see the deer coursing around the fields. Joy is a gift. It is never expected. When you search for it you will not find it but pray for it and it surely will come. If we kiss joy on its arrival we can live in eternities sunrise. There is something in all our hearts and souls that depends on joy and when someone brings joy to your heart you feel warm, understood and seen. So, this weekend, radiate joy all around you. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your beautiful smile. Also, remember all the wonderful people who have lost their lives throufh loneliness and emptiness and say some deep prayers for their family and friends.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 418
This morning as I look from my window of wonder I admire the freshly cut grass of yesterday. I can still sense the smell of it from my hands and mind. What a wonderful sensation at this time of year and the vigour of that sweet smell still fills my senses.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. This morning as I look from my window of wonder I admire the freshly cut grass of yesterday. I can still sense the smell of it from my hands and mind. What a wonderful sensation at this time of year and the vigour of that sweet smell still fills my senses. I pause in thanksgiving and now I must bring my mind alive today to do honor for the gift of today as it will invite me to explore new frontiers and break all the dead shells of yesterday and risk being disturbed and changed so that I would have the courage today to live the life that I would love, to postpone any dream no longer but to do at last what I came here on earth for and waste my heart on fear no more. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Friday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 417
Large problems can be solved a little piece at a time if you have the patience to keep going until the task or problem is complete.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. It is another beautiful morning here this morning and The Mindful Farmer is gearing up to have the gardens in top shape for our opening next month. Yesterday and this morning I was putting the finishing touches to a stone arch, putting the big stones at the base and the smaller ones at the top for obvious reasons. They are extremely heavy but the biggest of spaces can be filled with small stones if you have the patience. This philosophy of course applies to more than stone wall building. Large problems can be solved a little piece at a time if you have the patience to keep going until the task or problem is complete. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Thursday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 416
It is very rewarding when your children appreciate nature in the way you have taught them. It is all our duty to teach our children in the way our ancestors have taught us and that is that earth is our mother and she cannot protect us until we protect every little thing on earth.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 126 of our latest lock down. I had a phone call last evening from our oldest daughter Sheena complementing me on the beauty of our gardens, trees, shrubs etc.and she also arrived with my Hayter harrier lawn mower repaired and serviced by an admirer for which I am extremely grateful. It is very rewarding when your children appreciate nature in the way you have taught them. It is all our duty to teach our children in the way our ancestors have taught us and that is that earth is our mother and she cannot protect us until we protect every little thing on earth. It is our duty to breathe with Mother Earth and relish her appreciating harvest. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Wednesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 415
recognise the beauty in our world even if it is just a movement or a fleeting heart beat and enabling us to get back in touch with the wonder of ourselves, the wonder of being and being in the now
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 125 of our latest lock down. Isn't it wonderful we are beginning to ease our way out of lock down at 125 days. Hopefully it will be our last set back in this lock down at 125 days and we can begin again to recognise the beauty in our world even if it is just a movement or a fleeting heart beat and enabling us to get back in touch with the wonder of ourselves, the wonder of being and being in the now and the windows of wonder where we will find joy and peace and be able to recognise and understand the beauty in a little flower. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 414
Being Irish we withhold our dignity in the heart and soul of grace. I like to call these holidays a peace and soul weekend.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 124 of our latest lock down. It is Monday again and it is termed a Bank Holiday Monday, the May holiday. As I have said earlier, May is beautiful and all about it wonderful so why do we call it a bank holiday? The bank have never given our society, our community or our people a holiday from the pain and suffering of persuaded debt. Banks have flown in like the invisible raven and pierce through our lives, our families dispersing broken trust like flakes of snow on a cold winters day levelling us to near ground level and when they strike they break our faith of years, with one strike our roof is torn leaving only poison in the garden of our dreams. Being Irish we withhold our dignity in the heart and soul of grace. I like to call these holidays a peace and soul weekend. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your peace and soul weekend.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 413
When we arise early we are ahead of the day and have achieved something already and when you are out among nature and listening to the birds sing and the beautiful May flowers smiling at us
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 123 of our latest lock down. Another beautiful Sunday morning and another May custom is to wash your face in the May morning dew and if you take the time every day in May another custom practiced by our ancestors and it is very lifting and invigorating.and as we all know the early morning has its own quality. When we arise early we are ahead of the day and have achieved something already and when you are out among nature and listening to the birds sing and the beautiful May flowers smiling at us and I have in my heart for all of May my late Mam singing "the flower of the May" - two great reasons why I love the month of May. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Sunday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 412
Today is May 1st and last night, as is always tradition, I sprinkled holy water around the land, animals and the house. My parents said that it helped to protect all for the year ahead, keep all safe and bring a happy and fruitful summer and harvest . Blessings are very powerful and every time I leave the house I always reach for the holy water font and bless myself and then send blessings to all who I immediately think of.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 122 of our latest lock down. Today is May 1st and last night, as is always tradition, I sprinkled holy water around the land, animals and the house. My parents said that it helped to protect all for the year ahead, keep all safe and bring a happy and fruitful summer and harvest . Blessings are very powerful and every time I leave the house I always reach for the holy water font and bless myself and then send blessings to all who I immediately think of. When a person sends blessings to another they take that person into the core of their heart and this is a beautiful gift. We turn them into our soul and into divine kindness with no limits and this can open up a window of wonder through a wall of blindness. On this May day, send blessings to those who are near and dear to you, it will boomerang back ten fold. Wear your Saturday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 411
Beauty is available everywhere, even under the hardest conditions and then I think to myself no thing, plant, animal or person is ordinary just let it all be blessed and everything that walks on the earth and grows from the earth is blessed
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 121 of our latest lock down. This morning as I walked out on the farm I noticed a sycamore sapling growing from between two large rocks with no apparent earth to support it but it was growing away and surviving. In one way I thought this was extraordinary survival powers and yet to this young tree, totally ordinary. Beauty is available everywhere, even under the hardest conditions and then I think to myself no thing, plant, animal or person is ordinary just let it all be blessed and everything that walks on the earth and grows from the earth is blessed by the Lord. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Friday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 410
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. Sit down whenever and wherever you are. Listen to the birds singing all around you. Listen to the wind singing all around you and in through your veins. Be aware of the treasure that surrounds you.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 120 into our latest lock down. Today when you are out walking try this:- walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. Sit down whenever and wherever you are. Listen to the birds singing all around you. Listen to the wind singing all around you and in through your veins. Be aware of the treasure that surrounds you. Let not today and now pass in quest of a rare and perfect tomorrow. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Thursday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 409
When the caterpillar thought his life was over he turned into a beautiful butterfly
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 119 of our latest lock down. This morning again the power and beauty of nature is laughing at Ballinwillin House Farm and happiness is very evident in the hearts of animals and the people here. The thirst for happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man but we must believe as belief is never far removed from disbelief, love is never far from hate, hope is just a short distance from doubt and joy lives side by side with tears. When the caterpillar thought his life was over he turned into a beautiful butterfly. So, for today, dream your dreams of happiness and continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Wednesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 408
What a perfect peace that is deep within all our souls, below pain, below all the distractions of life.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 118 into our latest lockdown. There is a great peace here this morning at Ballinwillin House, only nature conversing with me and I thought to myself “what a perfect peace that is deep within all our souls, below pain, below all the distractions of life.” There is a silence vast and grand, an infinite ocean of calm which nothing can disturb, natures own peace which surpasses all understanding to the human mind. We seek it with passionate longing here and there and all over but it is there to find deep within ourselves, deep within our calm and peace. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Tuesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 407
The weather is absolutely beautiful at the moment and there is a feeling of kindness and heat in the atmosphere and there is something deep in the human soul that seems to depend on the presence of kindness.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 117 of our latest lock down. The weather is absolutely beautiful at the moment and there is a feeling of kindness and heat in the atmosphere and there is something deep in the human soul that seems to depend on the presence of kindness. There is something deep inside us that expects it. When someone is kind to you and you feel understood and seen there is no judgement or harshness towards you. Kindness has a gracious eye and on this Monday morning where the light is amazing let kindness cast a radiant light and sunshine all around you. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Monday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick