This summer Winnipeg has offered grace-filled weather--generously long sun-kissed days under a prairie blue sky, regular soaking rains that keep the land green and growing, pleasant breezes and miraculously few mosquitoes. It's the kind of season that invites bone-chilled, winter-barricaded folk to throw open the windows to soak up the warmth and breathe out long-held tension.
Grace has a similar impact on us. A cousin to forgiveness, grace is described by the hymnists as amazing, marvellous and wonderful. It saves wretches, finds the lost and bestows sight on the blind. Perhaps that's why Henri Nouwen (in The Way of the Heart) teaches that "only in the context of grace can we …
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