THE WINDS OF GRACE
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-