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 745
It is easy to stay in touch and close to nature and during silence we can listen to how the trees, shrubs, beautiful flowers and bulbs all grow and appear in silence and radiate beauty.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. We are experiencing some wonderful weather here at the moment and we are so fortunate to live and work on a farm. It is easy to stay in touch and close to nature and during silence we can listen to how the trees, shrubs, beautiful flowers and bulbs all grow and appear in silence and radiate beauty. If we lose touch with our source we are in danger of losing hope and if we lose hope all our principles fall down around us. We must continue to live by faith and not by sight and patience and time can do much more than force or rage. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Thursday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 744
We will quietly smile for having navigated softly through our work and the secret warmth that our ancestors from the invisible world have minded us and embraced us during this day.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. I welcome this new day and all it will bring as it emerges quietly with me from the dark of night. It opens up a field of brightness for us all to flourish in and fills us with hope and light to show us the way through the day. This day will bring us blessings to face fear and force so that we will behave with dignity no matter what form or shape our day takes. In the evening time we will give thanks as we shelter and rest in the garden seat admiring the radiant pink sunset that floats beneath the shelter of our beautiful Galtee mountains. We will quietly smile for having navigated softly through our work and the secret warmth that our ancestors from the invisible world have minded us and embraced us during this day. Let us all listen to our longing to be free. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Wednesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 743
My duty for this day is to enjoy my work in the fields and in the gardens and to have the time for each surprise that arises and illuminates.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. What a beautiful spring morning. Birds singing and the smell of freshly cut grass actually lifts my spirits. It is really wonderful to be able to give thanks for all this beauty that is drawn to my eye and all that is eternal in me welcomes the wonder and beauty of this beautiful March day and for the fields of beauty and excitement it creates. My duty for this day is to enjoy my work in the fields and in the gardens and to have the time for each surprise that arises and illuminates. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Tuesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 742
Today in the name of these sweet magnolias where the breeze holds your perfume inspiring us to stay in rhythm with our eternal breath. Today I am so fortunate and grateful to absorb this sweetness that flows from Mother Earth.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. It is that time of year again when the magnificent magnolias flower at Ballinwillin House. This huge, lush, extravagant display of floral beauty is unrivaled in my opinion. I give thanks for this beautiful shrub that lifts all our senses. When the fragrance and beauty of these wonderful plants breaks through the winds here it refreshes my heart and reminds me I am so lucky to be a child of the earth and so fortunate that my inner eye can see these beautiful and delicate petals where it registers the beauty of the complete otherness that surrounds me here. Today in the name of these sweet magnolias where the breeze holds your perfume inspiring us to stay in rhythm with our eternal breath. Today I am so fortunate and grateful to absorb this sweetness that flows from Mother Earth. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Monday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 741
Mothers are sacred, special and as near to devine as possible on earth. It is true of Kipling when he said "when God realised he could not be everywhere he ordained mothers". We only have one mother, so patient, kind and true. No one else in the world will be the same to you.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. It is another Sunday but a very special one as we celebrate another Mothers Day. It is well documented in my blogs over the years what my opinion on mothers are. Mothers are sacred, special and as near to devine as possible on earth. It is true of Kipling when he said "when God realised he could not be everywhere he ordained mothers". We only have one mother, so patient, kind and true. No one else in the world will be the same to you. So lets take a moment on this special Sunday and think what would the world be like if we based our decisions on what our mother would think of them. I have no doubt it would be a better place. My Mums nearness always fills the air around me and everyone around Ballinwillin House and everywhere we go and every morning when I arise I can hear her voice of blessing whispering in my heart. Continue to pray, bless, power healing and hope to all who need it and wear your Sunday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 740
Always cultivate a thankful and joyous heart. It does two things - it glorifies God and fills you with Joy. What a wonderful world we can make.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. I write and speak a lot about being thankful and having a thankful attitude and heart. It tempers all our thoughts and is a wonderful safeguard for your heart. A thankful heart is the window through which you perceive life. When you are grateful, a radiant light shines on all circumstances. I remember every day what my late Mam used to say about the "sister sins complaining and criticizing". There is no place in our real and spiritual world for the two above. Always cultivate a thankful and joyous heart. It does two things - it glorifies God and fills you with Joy. What a wonderful world we can make. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Saturday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 739
A new confidence will come alive where your imagination will learn to engage difficulty as its most rewarding threshold.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. This morning I am asking you all to pray for courage for people all over the world who need lots of courage mpw. For the people of the Eukrane, for people still fighting the Covid war and for people near to us at home who are fighting their own wars against illness of various forms. Search with them to find that diamond of light and let them know that they are not alone and this darkness has some hidden purpose and will expose a special gifft that your life requires. As we now pray for you we gather all the warm kindling around your heart to create that one spark that is all you need to nourish the flame that will cleanse this darkness forever. A new confidence will come alive where your imagination will learn to engage difficulty as its most rewarding threshold. Let us all pray together and continue to do so each day and power blessings, peace and hope to all who need it in our world. It will transform our world and joy, thankfulness and peace are the pathways and don't forget to wear your Friday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 738
We as farmers are just custodians of this precious earth and we move with the rhythm of Mother Nature. She in turn will balance our minds, hearts and souls.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. For the first time in many years we have purchased Belgian Blue calves for rearing on the farm and also three Scottish Highland calves. All looking to the future and a little change from the rearing of deer, wild boar and goats which we still farm also. When you look at the welcoming faces of these beautiful animals, everyone on the farm is delighted to be involved and is busy welcoming them and fussing about them. In times when there is a big push to urbanising the earth and building goes on everywhere it is encouraging to see farmers still holding their ground and keeping the intimate knowledge of the land and the clay alive. In time we will all be nourished with fruits from the earth and the farmers' hands. We as farmers are just custodians of this precious earth and we move with the rhythm of Mother Nature. She in turn will balance our minds, hearts and souls. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Thursday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 737
I also find that these times help me to meditate more deeply where I can pray more deeply to find my peace and then pass on this peace, prayers and blessings to all who need it.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. The Mindful Farmer is relaxing today, thinking, writing and dreaming. It is necessary to take time out for these moments. When we engage creatively we deport from the fixed world of daily routine and grounded facts surrounding our lives. We enter into a world where something is not yet but might be on its way from the invisible. To form this type of excitement is what fuels me to write and lets my imagination trowel the crowded seas of white pages. The artistic life is vulnerable and often chaotic and overwhelming but when something true begins to emerge you experience the golden moments that redeems all the splintered times. I also find that these times help me to meditate more deeply where I can pray more deeply to find my peace and then pass on this peace, prayers and blessings to all who need it. What a beautiful feeling to arise each day with a voice of blessing, peace and hope whispering in your heart. Have a wonderful, peaceful, mindful day and wear your Wednesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 736
Faith, love and hope are all in the waiting in that place where we will find harmony between our souls and our lives.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. When we awaken in the morning the first thing to do is to give thanks then as we proceed throughout the day we must practice trusting and thanking God all along the way. Trust is the channel through which all peace flows and thankfulness lifts us all above our circumstances, For me on the farm and in the gardens it is perhaps easier to live in the now and in peace with a grateful and trusting heart but if we all do a little each day living by faith and not by sight we will all be much happier. Faith, love and hope are all in the waiting in that place where we will find harmony between our souls and our lives. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Tuesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 735
Hope has the audacity to reach a hand into darkness and come out with a hand full of light
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. Recently I published a book on Hope in a time of crisis. My view on hope is that it is stubborn. It has the ability to accept the strengths and weaknesses in people and situations. It is not arrogant but it is not modest either. It can be daring, courageous, but most importantly it has the audacity to reach a hand into darkness and come out with a hand full of light. We must believe all will be well and then it will be well. Hope is not optimism. It is what we have when the bottom falls out of optimism. True hope is divine. It is the call to be what is not yet. It is the dream to arise each day with the voice of blessing whispering in your heart. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Monday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 734
Some of us find love in spouses, family, pets. Kindness and love takes many shapes and many directions. So today, I would like to dedicate my prayer and yours to the poor souls who consider themselves completely unloved.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. Most of us are around family and friends who care about us and love us. One of Granduncle Jacks sayings was "how can you be poor if you are loved?" Some of us find love in spouses, family, pets. Kindness and love takes many shapes and many directions. So today, I would like to dedicate my prayer and yours to the poor souls who consider themselves completely unloved. God gave his soul to us because He loved us. How can any of us be spiritually poor? If you are spiritually loved and happy how can we be poor? The spirituality of us all, especially us country people, always seem to belong to a happier, more noble order. Our life is looked on as a creative source to God and man. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Sunday best smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 733
Now we cannot see with our gaze your face but it will always come back to us holding beauty and kindness and your music will always be heard in our ears. We pray that this dark grief will flower with hope in every heart that loves you. We pray that all sadness will be wiped from your mind and we know now that we will never lose you again.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. Yesterday we were remembering all the people who lost their lives to Covid 19. It is very sad and difficult to explain and even sympathise with all the families and friends who have lost such beautiful and wonderful people who have contributed so much to our society. Now we cannot see with our gaze your face but it will always come back to us holding beauty and kindness and your music will always be heard in our ears. We pray that this dark grief will flower with hope in every heart that loves you. We pray that all sadness will be wiped from your mind and we know now that we will never lose you again. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 732
Spring has been born to be with us. We too were born to be unique. To be born is to be chosen and therefore it is our duty to inhabit our own individuality and to live the life that we came here for and to waste our hearts on fear no more.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. St. Patrick's Day yesterday was well celebrated across Ireland and the world. Our green, gold and white colours were proudly held high. It is a day that marks the turning of the corner into spring. Spring is raising its hand and will heat the earth with its light and hope and it puts a smile across our celtic faces. The days will grow longer now just like they do every year and hope is again in sight. We as human beings will always look for the beautiful road ahead. Spring has been born to be with us. We too were born to be unique. To be born is to be chosen and therefore it is our duty to inhabit our own individuality and to live the life that we came here for and to waste our hearts on fear no more. Have that courage not to postpone your dreams any more. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Friday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 731
These little angels on stage did stir my heart and soul and reminded me to be fully alive and in the now so all that is eternal in me can move to the territories of peace and fall into rhythm with me and in nature. Praise be the youth, our future.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. It is a beautiful St. Patricks day morning here at Ballinwillin House and already we have done a farm and garden tour with the grandchildren. I want to mention something very special that took place last night. It was a Patricks Day concert that took place in Ballyporeen, also famous because of Ronald Reagan's visit. This concert was for children 4 - 12 years old and was brilliant. Our interest was Ada, our four year old grandchild who was performing and she was brilliant, as they all were. The scene on the stage was set with the beautiful Galtee mountains as a backdrop. The concert was all about youth, spring, growth and hope. It was a delight to witness and it set my heart on fire. These little angels on stage did stir my heart and soul and reminded me to be fully alive and in the now so all that is eternal in me can move to the territories of peace and fall into rhythm with me and in nature. Praise be the youth, our future. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Patricks Day smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 730
I need to shape this hurt, teach my heart to forgive, learn more compassion and pray to God for help with this awful affair.
Good morning and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre. It is a very historic day here today at Ballinwillin House. Two full years of daily blogs. Covid 19 is still simmering away with numbers very high again and now another war, the war in the Ukraine. It is a time for resilience, strength and prayer and if all this isn't enough last evening some vandals cut some fencing on the deer farm and went in with lurcher dogs and attacked the deer injuring many and stressing all the pregnant females. I must say I got a very disappointing response from the Gardaí so far but we will wait and see what the morning brings. There was wonderful kindness and support from the neighbours Ciara and Amy. Thank God for good, strong and honourable people. When you go about your daily work and mind your own business and help people as much as you can, when people violate your space and injure your animals, for me, it is the last straw. Injure me but not the innocent animals. It is a wound that burrows inside my heart and takes to ground my confidence. But I need to shape this hurt, teach my heart to forgive, learn more compassion and pray to God for help with this awful affair. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 729
It is my duty to keep this intimate knowledge of the clay alive
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. It is a beautiful morning here this morning and The Mindful Farmer is off to the fields doing repair jobs to the fences and the gates, checking water troughs etc and getting all the animals ready to go into their fresh spring paddocks. It is a beautiful time every year. Everywhere and everything is fresh with excitement. It is the time of year that reminds me of my responsibilities to the land, to nature and that they are able to trust the warm and true intentions of my heart, my hand, making this farm and domain of shelter and nourishment for all to dwell and thrive in the imagination of springtime. It is my duty to keep this intimate knowledge of the clay alive. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Tuesday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 728
When we are struck by this wonderment something awakens in our highest regions of destiny. Our time is about to behave differently when we are visited by such beauty and fragrance. Compliments of Mother Nature on magnolia Monday.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. It is another Monday and I am going to call it "magnolia monday". As I was walking in the garden I was admiring the magnificent magnolias, the magic of a flower, the magic of a wonderful tree from bare but to a ragingly wonderful forest of flame. When we are struck by this wonderment something awakens in our highest regions of destiny. Our time is about to behave differently when we are visited by such beauty and fragrance. Compliments of Mother Nature on Magnolia Monday. Continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Monday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 727
A true adventure of growth, your heart will always be warm and open for the welcome and divine fire will always burn brightly for everyone to gather around.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. What another great feeling at Ballinwillin House this morning. Miriam Mulcahy, my long standing partner and wife, was awarded the title of Cork Business Woman of the year for 2021. What a great honour for us all and in particular her. She has worked tirelessly over the past three decades running many businesses and rearing a great family also but last night in Cork this hard work was rewarded and recognition is very important. It is similar to thankfulness and this award is saying to Miriam we are thankful to you for your commitment to the hospitality business, welcoming people from all over the world into the bosom of our home to enjoy great hospitality and food. Her leadership is an example to us all. A true adventure of growth, your heart will always be warm and open for the welcome and divine fire will always burn brightly for everyone to gather around. Well done again Mir and for the rest of us we must continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Sunday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 726
We must act as if everything depends on us and trust as if everyone depends on God.
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. What another great feeling at Ballinwillin House this morning. Miriam Mulcahy, my long standing partner and wife, was awarded the title of Cork Business Woman of the year for 2021. What a great honour for us all and in particular her. She has worked tirelessly over the past three decades running many businesses and rearing a great family also but last night in Cork this hard work was rewarded and recognition is very important. It is similar to thankfulness and this award is saying to Miriam we are thankful to you for your commitment to the hospitality business, welcoming people from all over the world into the bosom of our home to enjoy great hospitality and food. Her leadership is an example to us all. A true adventure of growth, your heart will always be warm and open for the welcome and divine fire will always burn brightly for everyone to gather around. Well done again Mir and for the rest of us we must continue to pray, bless, power healing, peace and hope to all who need it and wear your Sunday smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick