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The GB News Advent Calendar, Day 23
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Hi, I'm Jordan and I'm a vicar in the Church of England. Where I live, next door, is a park
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And me and my little boy know I love spending time together in the park. And recently I took him down to the play area and he wanted to go on the monkey bars and he's quite small so I had to lift him up
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And I held him as he went across each of the bars the first time
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But I noticed he's beginning to get a bit stronger. So the next time I let go and put my hands just underneath him
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And he freaked out because he thought I was no longer with him
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And then when he realized and heard my reassurance, Noah, I'm with you, I'm close
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he began to swing from bar to bar and grew in confidence. In the book of Isaiah, it prophesies and foretells Jesus's coming
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and one of the names he uses for Jesus is Emmanuel, which means God with us
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And this Advent, as we look to Christmas Day and as Christians look to the birth of Jesus, to his coming
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when Jesus was born, he became God with us. As Christians, we believe he is fully God and fully human being
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One of us, yet God with us. and as I look to Christmas and as I reflect on my life and on the future
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I know I can walk with confidence through things I would not otherwise be able to
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because Jesus Emmanuel is God with us and I have confidence that what I walk through
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his hands of care are never too far away
