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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Joel Knight and I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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It's such a relief when people get it. When someone can say, I went through this too
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I know exactly how you feel. When friends can offer the listening ear of someone who understands
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The gentle advice of someone who's been there. But when it comes to God, it'd be easy to think he doesn't understand
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God, if he exists, is withdrawn, far off, aloof, distant from the messiness of this world
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Easy to expect Jesus to float through the world with a halo around his head
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hovering over the messy, complex sadness of life in this veil of tears
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But the Jesus of the Bible is so different. One time he encounters a man he can't hear and can't speak
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He draws near to human pain by reaching out toward it. In gentle compassion, Jesus places his own fingers into ears that cannot hear the laugh of a baby
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or the rustle of leaves, or the gentle lapping tied onto the rocky beach
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In tender care, Jesus places his own fingers onto a tongue that can't form the words
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I love you to one's nearest and dearest. He literally reaches toward human pain
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He knows. I wonder what it would be like to know his tender care
