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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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Maybe it comes staring out across a stunning vista, mountains soaring into the sky
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or a glorious sunset over a turquoise sea, or staring amazed into the eyes of a newborn baby
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so fragile, so small, so infinitely precious. us. Those moments we feel there is more. Moments we need to reach beyond ourselves to explain the
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majesty, the awe we feel. We might call it transcendence or the divine. Mostly we live in
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a society that stifles such moments. We live as if reality has only one downstairs story
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and not an upstairs one too. But Christians believe there is more, the divine. He has come
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downstairs and his name is Jesus. When we realise there is more, how do we respond? Jesus's friend
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Peter, the fisherman, puts down nets at Jesus's bidding and catches more fish than he's ever caught
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before and realises he's friends with the divine, with the one who sits above this world and has
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come downstairs into this world and directs the fish of this world exactly how he pleases
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And Peter says, go away from me, Lord. I'm a sinful man. What do we do with those moments
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when we need to reach beyond ourselves to explain the beauty, the awe, the majesty we feel
