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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Jordan and I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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Imagine being rejected by your community. Imagine having something that has happened to you that you can't change
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put you outside of the people you love. This was the case for those who had leprosy, both in the time of Jesus and beforehand
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It was a disease which left the person separate from the very people they wanted to be with
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In Leviticus, a book in the Bible, the people with leprosy are commanded not to touch anyone without it
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to make sure they don't pass it on to others. I wonder who might be the people that we consider to be like lepers
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How might I respond to them in love? Jesus shows us how he responds
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There's a beautiful story of Jesus healing a leper that comes to him in Matthew 8
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The one big social taboo is not to touch a leper Jesus touches them and says be clean
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And instantly they are healed Perhaps today we might consider the awful situations of those who are outcasts
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and how we can respond to them in love to safely include them in the right way in our lives, family and society
