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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, a vicar in the Church of England. When my sister lived in Scotland, her neighbour had a huge whisky collection covering one wall of his dining room
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He called it his pension. The plan was to begin selling it when he neared retirement and live off the proceeds
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Now imagine if he were to welcome in a friend and start uncorking his finest whiskeys and pouring them some of each
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It would say a lot about his love for them. Well, something very like that happened four days before the first Good Friday
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Jesus was at a dinner when a lady called Mary knelt before him, opened an extremely valuable bottle of perfume and poured the whole lot over Jesus' feet, every drop
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It was worth a year's wages. And John tells us the house was filled with the fragrance
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Some criticised her extravagance, but Jesus defended her because she was right to love and honour him like that
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Four days later, quite possibly with the smell of that perfume still clinging to him
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Jesus died on the cross. and there he poured out his life in a far more extravagant display of love for the world
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The Bible says this is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us
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And if that is true, then the real question is whether I have really seen, as Mary did
