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Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season
Winter A Spiritual Biography of the Season Author:Gary Schmidt (Editor), Susan M. Felch (Editor), Barry Moser (Illustrator) Explore how the dormancy and difficulty of winter can be a time of spiritual preparation and transformation. — For many, winter is a time of postponed activity -- and of shoveling snow, navigating ice, and trying to keep warm. What can easily be forgotten in winter’s cold and occasional dreariness is that it can also be a time of shoring up... more », of purity, praise, delight, and play.
In thirty stirring pieces--from translated Sanskrit and Hebrew poems to Henry David Thoreau and Bashô, Jane Kenyon, John Updike, Kathleen Norris, and Annie Dillard -- we share in the recognition of winter’s hardships and celebrate the glory of winter as a spiritual gift -- a quiet time in the rhythm of life, a time of thoughtfulness, of looking forward, and of unexpected hope.« less