Recalling all of the potential challenges of living in a climate with snow reminds me how I have handled other types of stormy seasons in life. Snowstorms can be incredibly dangerous, especially when the snow falls fast, heavy, and without warning.

In this past year of extraordinary stress, pain, strife, turmoil and loss for so many of us on this earth, I have been pondering a phrase that decorated my newest binder purchased at Walmart last July— “NO RAIN, NO FLOWERS.”