Winter Leads to Spring

winterSomeone shared with us a wonderful video about John O’Donohue, a Celtic poet, philosopher and writer.

In it we found this quote that resonated very much with our experience.

It is about winter. And depression. And how life blossoms from the seeming dreariness of a period of fallowness.

We think you might appreciate it. If you like this clip we encourage you to get the complete video. It is called [amazon_link id=”B004ZQJ31W” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]a Celtic Pilgrimage[/amazon_link], and it is a thing of beauty and also a source of spiritual renewal.

If at this time in your life you are enduring through a place of bleakness, bleakness is never as bleak as it seems on the surface. At the heart of the stripped-down, arrested, cold stillness of winter there is huge movement secretly at work