One of the legends of the life of Jesus tells of a day when He was walking beside the sea, when suddenly a sea-bird, driven by a storm that had been sweeping on the farther shore, came fluttering towards Him, and, panting, fell on the sand at His feet and died. Then He took the bird and laid it in His hand, and breathed on it – when lo! The bird fluttered a moment and then flew aloft, its life restored. It is only a legend, and yet it was just in this gentle way that Jesus dealt always with human weakness and failure which fled to Him out of life’s storms.