Coming Storms in a Cold World? How to Thaw (& Why Your Heart Can’t Afford to Grow Cold)

The water froze for my flock of sheep yesterday. My fingertips burn with January cold as I pick away at the ice. Strangely, the world can feel deeply heated and icy all at the same time. Storms blowing in can make us turn inward—to build, through a million little decisions, our own little ice castles of self-protection – where we think we’re safe and secure, but no water still runs, and we end up dying of thirst inside our own defenses.At the far end of the sheep fold, I try cracking the wa