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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, the Vicar of Utterbridge Parish Church. So many of the stories we love culminate in a great battle or confrontation
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one at great cost, allowing the hero and the people they've saved
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to enjoy peace and rest with those they love. Victory was never the goal itself
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The goal was what came after. Peace with the ones we love
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Such a precious thing. It made the struggle, the fight, the cost worth it in the end
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We humans had been telling ourselves versions of that story for as long as we know
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It touches something in us that's very deep and very old. like an early childhood memory we can never quite remember but never quite
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forget some may call it sentimentality or wishful thinking but might it be the
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echoes of a true story to which we just forgotten the names of the characters the Christian claim is that it is a true story the true story in which we all live and that at its heart is not a myth but a man Jesus Christ
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And that in his death and resurrection, he won the great battle for us at the cost of his life, so that peace, Christians believe, is now available to all who trust in him
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The Bible ends beautifully with the promise that just as Jesus left, he'll one day return and it'll be like a wedding between Jesus and his people who he loves
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It ends like this. Behold, the dwelling place of God is among the people. He will dwell with them. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more
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Might this be the true story of struggle, loss, victory and rest
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Not just the story we're in, but the one in which we're invited to find our place
