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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, my name's Mark and I'm a vicar of an urban church in Teesside
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I wonder if you've given up anything for Lent this year. Perhaps there's something that you've been doing that you know is wrong
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and have decided that now is the time to kick it for good. Or perhaps a few months ago you made a New Year's resolution to change how you acted
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If you have, you'll probably have noticed that the first weeks might be easy
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but then you found it getting harder and harder to keep up your commitment. It's weird because we all want to change
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but at the same time seem to find something inside ourselves fighting against that change
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The Bible talks about this in the letter to the church in Rome, where St Paul writes
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that I want to do good. Evil is right there with me. So what do we do
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Maybe we double down on our commitments and this time promise to try even harder
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But if the problem's within me, perhaps I need to look outside myself to find help to change
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For me, I've been encouraged and helped by friends and family. But it's the promise of Jesus that he'll keep working at transforming me
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even when I want to give up, that I found particularly precious
