Sometimes the most significant moments, the greatest trials of our lives are only understood in hindsight. 

As the Danish Philosopher and Theologian, Soren Kirkegaard once said: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards”. 

That is the human condition.

We should all seek to take time to look back, to reflect on the journey, this pilgrimage of life that has brought us this far, but also a time to look forward, with all the freshness of hope of a child to the path we yet have to tread.

And what better to guide us, perhaps, than to hear the story of Martin the cobbler.