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The GB News Advent Calendar. Day 17
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, a vicar in the Church of England. On a train journey one winter, a Christian minister passed a whitewashed farmhouse
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standing out brightly against the muddy fields all around. On the return journey the next day, he went back by the same route
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but a thick layer of snow had fallen overnight. And now, against the dazzling whiteness of the snow, the very same farmhouse looked grubby and dull
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What had once seemed clean no longer seemed clean at all. Not now that absolute purity had fallen from above
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Christmas is about someone coming down, who changes the landscape and how we see ourselves
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Like that farmhouse, we can feel pretty good about ourselves as long as we compare ourselves to each other
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But the night Jesus was born, absolute purity entered our world
