If ANZAC Day underscores anything, especially into a post-Christian nation, it is that suffering for whom you love is really not so foreign, intimately and personally confirmed in the full expression of this true human demonstration, into when it was most required and into where it proved extremely costly, objectively reflective of the supreme earthly mission ever witnessed on this planet, with it is finished, the ultimate first and last post.

As you do consider, and as you do compare, reflecting on another generation’s sacrifices, help to properly situate our own present challenge.

When someone seeks your best, proven at the expense of their own life, that kind of love does something wonderful inside.

Reminds me of Another.

And where the best way of remembering their costly gallop for liberty’s shore, becomes about positively honouring the celebration of well-lived life, and in the light of a greater dawn!

Anzac Day 2020

We cannot forget!

JWK

I thought it was about time I hit post again on a platform celebrating the colours of an open world.

In this lockdown sporting-less period, I have been making the most of some other creative angles of watching, and one I appreciate follows the travel-adventures of chef and all-round, gastro-guy—Rick Stein

In a series entitled, Rick Stein’s Secret France, in the second episode, he visits a wine-making family in the village of Auxey-Duresses, which I believe is in Burgundy country.

As we become introduced to a family, we are informed the French daughter has married an ex-pat Englishman. Merci. As they begin to sample the various benefits of wine and food country, something spoken caught my attention, and is worth highlighting. It arrived as they were discussing the French parents mastery of the grape-growing-into-liquid process, where the subject matter came to a descriptive point, and onto something like the following contrast.

In England, people say, “What do you do?” But in France, they say, “What are you a master of?”

BOOM!

I love both the nuance and emphasis, which infuses so much greater worth and purpose, into any daily pursuit. This changes the thinking about any destination, which now demands much more of a process when locating this intention.

The encouragement toward excellence also reflects the call of the cultural mandate, and positively romancing the very best of any job or vocation.

Is this how you think about your daily activities? Or are you just filling-in time or working space? We are too-often entirely motivated by what surrounds, instead of this stimulation arriving through our internals being positively aroused, and for the glory of God.

Can you imagine how this french twist could positively challenge or inform your world—even in a season of less, which could become more?

How could this transform your time and talent?

“What are you a master of?”

Maybe give it some thought—you’ve potentially now got the time!

Until Next Time

JWK