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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, the vicar of Utterbridge Parish Church. There are few things as comforting as arriving back at a happy family home
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perhaps after a long time away. The smell of a family recipe cooking
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the sound of familiar voices in the next room, the feeling as you flop into your favourite chair
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To be truly home means peace, security, acceptance, love. Some are fortunate enough to experience something of that in this life
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Some, of course, don't. But it's something every one of us longs for
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The author C.S. Lewis, best known for the Narnia stories, once wrote
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If I find in myself desires, nothing in this world can satisfy
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The only logical explanation is that I was made for another world
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His reasoning depends on the assumption that our desires or longings are all there to drive us to a satisfaction that really exists But does such a home as we long for really exist
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The Christian response to that question is yes. After Jesus told his disciples he would die the next day
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he said to them in John 14, Do not let your hearts be troubled
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My father's house has many rooms. I am going to prepare a place for you. His disciples complained that they didn't know the
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way to his father's house, this heavenly home, but they did. They did know the way because Jesus
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replied, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me
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You see, Jesus taught that the way home isn't a path or a philosophy or a set of religious
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practices, but a person. And he promised to lead home all who trust and follow him
