Embracing Winter
by Erin Rivers – Mission, KS « contact Erin » While driving the other day, I was listening to a radio program where the speaker, a young woman, was talking about her experience with her husband being either deathly ill or in fact passing away and her dealing with a physical ailment that had subsequently been diagnosed as a chronic, life-long condition. She spoke of this being her “Winter” and went on to speak of how she learned to “embrace Winter” and the gifts that went along with that. Buddhism also teaches the value of embracing the pain, sadness, et