“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?’

[Percy Bysshe Shelley]

 

In his journal, Thomas Merton writes his December message…

“It is beautiful advent weather, greyish and cold, with clouds of light snow howling across the valley, and I see it is really winter. I put some bread out for the birds.”

 

In the winter of our days, we are blessed to offer kindnesses.