http://www.pietisten.org/authors/KerstenDavidW.htmlen-ushttp://www.pietisten.org/winter99/fathersboat.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter99/fathersboat.htmlThe boating season lies ahead. For me, it is a season of grace and wonder as I’m privileged once again to return to the waters. And yet, as the call of grace comes to me again and again, I have to admit my own resistance to grace. My father surprised me with a phone call late last summer. Hemming and hawing, he finally said he would like to give me his boat.