Autumn into winter, changes in the angles of sunlight, continuing political and social changes of all sorts, the ongoing changes and challenges we each face in our personal lives: that’s just a bit of the way things continue to shift.

It is also a time of changing weather. As winter sets in in the northern hemisphere, that can be a time of challenge. It can also offer a time for gathering in, for community, for reflection. Those things are needed at any season, of...