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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, I'm Reverend Mike, a Church of England vicar. Do you ever have those days where everything seems to go wrong
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You spill coffee all over your clean outfit, your phone pings with a bad news email
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your car won't start and it's barely 8.30am. Sometimes it's more serious, a season perhaps where a bereavement and a bad diagnosis
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and job loss all seem to happen at once. Jesus tells a parable of a man who was beaten and robbed
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and left for dead before a good Samaritan came to help. It's a very well-known story of unexpected
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kindness and the reality is that life can be a bit like those robbers at times
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it kicks us in the guts, leaves us feeling helpless. Grief is so often secret
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We don't know what's happening in the life of that person next to us in the tube, the person queuing up next to us at the shop
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And how often has a small kindness from a stranger brought us back from the brink
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Maybe today we can be such a good Samaritan to someone. And in doing so, we become a small reflection of Jesus
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the one who came from above to bind us up and to make us whole
