I wrote this book for my mother when she was terminally ill. I think it helped me as much as it did her, to deal with the illness and my questions surrounding it. The transcendence I felt during those winter mornings while writing this will likely remain a highlight of my inner and spiritual experience. In that sense this book presents a first-hand account of mystical experience and the deep love and peace emanating therefrom. The simplicity of the nature images which arose from the experience remain with me as well.