Based on : John 12:24 (NIV)

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

Excerpt:

I suspect that this is why Winter also gives us the gift of Lent. The Lenten season always begins in the Winter. One might say that the two are contradictory. However, I believe that Winter and Lent are interdependent. One cannot exist without the other. It is the apparent death-like experience of Winter that lays the foundation for the transformative resurrections created by Lent.