A Blessing (n.) is like a background hum, heard for the first time in the second it stops.
A Blessing (n.) turns luck into something that sounds deserved, and the lucky prefer it that way.
A Blessing (n.) is luck that the lucky would rather not call luck.
A Blessing (n.) is luck that has been given a sender.
Grace (n.) is like a mathematical law.
Grace (n.) is more beautiful than beauty.
Grace (n.) is the outcome of inward harmony.
Grace (n.) is the name given to every undeniable pleasant feeling — "redemption through grace," "justification before God": natural inclinations satisfied under a new interpretation.
Hail mary (n.) is a long, desperate forward pass in American football, or any last-ditch attempt with little chance of success.
A Hail mary (n.) is remembered forever when it works and forgotten by the next play when it doesn't.
A Hail mary (n.) is hope that arrives only after the plan is dead.
A Hail mary (n.) is a prayer thrown when the clock has already quit.
Kol Nidre (n.) is the prayer chanted at the start of Yom Kippur, annulling vows made to God.
Kol Nidre (n.) works like clearing a desk before starting work that actually matters.
Kol Nidre (n.) fills a sanctuary with people who managed, for once, to arrive early.
Kol Nidre (n.) begins a day of atonement by admitting that vows are easier made than kept.