Great weekend in cardiff apart from Ioan our youngest boy developing chicken pox , but here’s one big thing i took out of our trip to St Fagans which is a famous welsh museum/village re-living what it was like to live in the past.
The part where you walk into various old style welsh cottages, but then one cottage in particular stood out.
There was a very enthusiastic older gentleman ready to tell a story. He said to look into the fire, it’s the focal point and especially during a time when there was no electricity or anything we take for granted like today.
He told us that welsh families always, and i mean ALWAYS kept the fire going, in the morning, at night, ALL of the time or they believed it would be 12 years of bad luck.
The fire at home signified a lot good of things in welsh families and displayed their values, just like many religions and families across the world do.
You hear the old saying “keep the fire burning” many times today.
What are you doing to keep your fire burning? Have you let it go out? Have you let it go out so many times you don’t know how to light it up again?
In my book, exercise gets the spark to light your own internal fire every time. It doesn’t spark first time, maybe not second time but gives it a few goes in a row and that spark definitely happens to get your first fire.
Start eating healthy a few days in a row and you start adding wood to your fire.
To keep the fire from going out, you must read and listen to positive influences and books. This must be a daily experience or that fire will get put out pretty quick by negative influences.
These three things keep the fire roaring, the warmth coming out and the enthusiasm at an all time high. Nothing feels as good as this.
One thing on the way out of St Fagans, we caught the red cottage, painted red because it keeps out evil spirits. Our club is famously red, that felt pretty good too! Protect our house!
