In Searching for a God to Love, Chris Blake quoted Robert Farrar Capon, who wrote, "Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening." Blake told me that he took ten years to write this book, and I think a good part of that was spent striving to portray the God who could lead that cosmic bash.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://spectrummagazine.org/article/book-reviews/2009/01/22/searching-god-love