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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, the vicar of Utterbridge Parish Church. I've recently finished reading with my son the first book in a series of novels
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At the end of book one, the story wraps up really nicely, but it leaves you knowing there's more to come and sensing that the story will end well
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So we bought the next one in the series and we're eager to see where the story goes
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That's how all great stories work. There's a sense that they're heading somewhere and you want to see it unfold
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The Bible is a library of 66 books. Perhaps the most famous of the four Gospels, the biographies of Jesus' life
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, named after their authors. But Luke wrote a sequel called Acts
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And at the end of his first book and the beginning of his second, he records the same decisive event
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that wrapped up one part of the story and kicked off the next namely the ascension of Jesus The 40 days after Easter which is where we are today Jesus ascended into heaven
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commissioning his followers to spread the news about him and promising that one day he'd return
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It wrapped up the story of Jesus' life on earth and it kicked off the story of the Jesus movement
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that we now call the church. One of my favourite films is Forrest Gump
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And towards the end, Forrest wonders aloud, I don't know if we each have a destiny
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or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. It's a profound question, but Christians believe it's one Jesus has answered
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That however random life sometimes feels, history is heading somewhere. That it's somewhere good
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and that between then and now, we're invited to be part of his unfolding story
