"Well, something surprised me about that Chinese banquet. Through course after course after course, I was not able to identify anything as "just a filler." Nothing stood out as "only an appetizer" to get through, to get past, to get on with the main course that was not there yet (but was coming!). Every course--in presentation, in taste, in texture--bore the marks of a master chef. Then the obvious occurred to me: the reason no course looked like a filler was because, from the master chef's perspective, no course was a filler. To him, every course was main."

-- p.20, "Anonymous"

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Philippians 1:23-26