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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Marjorie and I'm a Baptist minister in a city centre church in Sheffield
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There's a very human story that comes at the end of Luke's Gospel
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Two of Jesus' friends are walking together on the road to Emmaus
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discussing the terrible events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus. and they fail to recognize that the risen Jesus is now walking and talking with them
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We had hoped it would be different, they say. I wonder sometimes if we miss the closeness of God and we fail to recognize him in just the same way
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It's also possible that we may be heavy-hearted by our circumstances and we may feel that we can't lift our heads to a higher horizon
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This story reminds us clearly that God's ways of ruling and operating are so completely different to those of this world
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He didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it. He leaves his friends on the road who now recognize his identity with a promise
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I will send the Holy Spirit as the Father has promised. Waiting in life, these in-between times can be really hard
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but to wait with hope is completely different. The same followers went on to tell the world of this incredible hope we can have
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And then we had hoped it would be different becomes instead, in the resurrection of Jesus, we have this sure and certain hope
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A hope for ourselves, hope for today and bright hope for tomorrow
