Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

The Wren and the Winter Wind: A contemporary fable about hope and resilience for those at the end of their rope

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Thad Cardine
May 17, 2025
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The Wren and the Winter Wind

Once upon a time, in a patch of woods wedged between a dried-up creek and a row of weary houses, there lived a wren with a nest full of chicks and not much else.

Her name was Norah.

She wasn’t the biggest bird or the brightest. She didn’t have the melodious song of the nightingale or the sharp eyes of the hawk. But she had buil…

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