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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, I'm Reverend Micah Vicar in the Church of England. When real trouble strikes, it's difficult, isn't it, to think of anything else
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Our minds become consumed with that humanitarian atrocity, or that diagnosis, or that fractured relationship
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But have you ever noticed that ancient churches are often set on high, perhaps on a hill
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This speaks of the very biblical idea that our hearts ascend to meet with God
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That we leave our earthly cares behind in order to raise our attention to him
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Now of course God welcomes us to bring anxiety and concerns. In fact he bids us bring them
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But it is possible to have our minds so cluttered with our own stuff
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that we fail to see what really matters. the transcendent goodness and beauty of Jesus
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True joy in the Christian faith is found when the focus of our hearts is no longer on our circumstances
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our limitations, our desires, but him, as the Apostle Paul says, if then you were raised with Christ
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seek those things which are above where Christ is. Set your minds on things above
