The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you who must raise your sails. Rabindranath Tagore The primary delight of writing The Inconceivable Surprise of Living was discovering gems like the Tagore line above. With a simple metaphor, Tagore (who in 1913 became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature) clarifies that we need not think of grace as an occasional gift beamed to us from a distant God. We could choose instead to perceive grace as an ever-

In recent days we have seen again how a few individuals can create localized terror and global fear. Experts say that the kind of terror cells that carried out the attack in Paris are smaller and harder to track than large organizations planning 9/11 type events. Terror cells, large or small, create a tax on the simple joy of living for all on our planet. It is easy to feel helpless about such events--to think that the best we can do is go back to our own lives where at least