The Gifts of Winter
Meet Amma Winter. Amma is the title given to those sage women who lived in the desert in the 3rd century offering their wisdom to seekers. They lived in harsh and barren landscapes and so were intimate with the wilderness of the soul. Winter is a rescue, she entered our lives last week and has been slowly settling into the rhythm of life here at the Abbey. She has a heartbreaking story. She was abandoned with some other dogs on a farm and left to freeze to death. When the rescuers arrived she survived but her litter of puppies did not. Because of this