Charis (pronounced, care-iss) is an ancient Greek word for ‘grace,’ describing the life-giving joy and kindness that flows into our lives, often unexpectedly, from sacred dimensions of our being, transforming our awareness and view of life in the world. Charis is that aspect and action of grace so often forgotten in a ‘spirituality of achievement’, where we see ourselves as the protagonist in the spiritual journey, seeking a relationship with the Sacred, which in reality, as Abraham Joshua Heschel so ably put it, was first in search of us!