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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, my name is Andrew Latimer. I'm a Church of England minister at Grace Church in Greenwich
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I wonder whether you could give the first names of all of your grandparents
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For me it would be Doris and Kenneth, Frank and Elsie. Easy
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OK, here's a slightly harder question. Can you give the first names of all your great-grandparents
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Personally, I can do one or two, but I can't do all of them. So these are people we're directly related to
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And already within just over 100 years, we don't even know their names
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let alone what their hopes and dreams were or what it was that made them tick
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The Bible says in Psalm 103 that the life of mortals is like grass
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They flourish like a flower of the field. So it saying that human beings do flourish there are real achievements for us to celebrate And then the verse goes on They flourish like a flower of the field The wind blows over it and it gone
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And its place remembers it nay more. Now, on its own, this could be pretty negative
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I'm only here for a short time. Then I'll be forgotten. But then the verse continues like this
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but from everlasting to everlasting the Lord's love is with those who fear him
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Wonderfully the Bible shows us that the key to permanence the key to having everlasting
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significance is to connect ourselves to the everlasting God. We are like grass we are here
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today we're gone tomorrow but his love is eternal and therefore if we can connect ourselves to him
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we too can be eternal
